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PROCEEDINGS 

OF   THE 

REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION, 

HELD    AT 

CHICAGO,  MAY  16,  17  AND  18,  1860. 


At  12  o'clock  on  Wednesday,  the  16th  day  of  May,  I860, 
the  delegations  from  various  states  of  the  Confederacy, 
appointed  in  pursuance  of  a  call  issued  by  the  Republican 
National  Committee,  assembled  in  the  Wigwam,  at  Chicago. 

HON.  EDWIN  D.  MORGAN,  of  New  York,  Chairman  of  the 
Republican  National  Committee,  called  the  Convention  to 
order.  He  said  : 

On  the  twenty-second  of  December  last,  the  Republican 
National  Committee,  at  a  meeting  convened  for  the  purpose 
in  the  city  of  New  York,  issued  a  call  for  a  National  Conven- 
tion, which  I  will  now  read  : 

"  A  National  Republican  Convention  will  meet  at  Chicago, 
on  Wednesday,  the  16th  day  of  May  next,  at  twelve  o'clock, 
noon,  for  the  nomination  of  candidates  to  be  supported  for 
President  and  Vice-President  at  the  next  election. 

"  The  Republican  electors  of  the  several  states,  the  members 
of  the  People's  Party  of  Pennsylvania  and  of  the  Opposition 
Party  of  New  Jersey,  and  all  others  who  are  willing  to  co- 
operate with  them  in  support  of  the  candidates  which  shall 
there  be  nominated,  and  who  are  opposed  to  the  policy  of  the 


present  administration,  to  federal  corruption  and  usurpation,  to 
the  extension  of  slavery  into  the  territories,  to  the  new  and 
dangerous  political  doctrine  that  the  constitution  of  its  own 
force  carries  slavery  into  all  the  Territories  of  the  United 
States,  to  the  opening  of  the  African  slave  trade,  to  any  ine- 
quality of  rights  among  citizens ;  and  who  are  in  favor  of  the 
immediate  admission  of  Kansas  into  the  Union,  under  the 
constitution  recently  adopted  by  its  people,  of  restoring  the 
federal  administration  to  a  system  of  rigid  economy  and  to 
the  principles  of  Washington  and  Jefferson,  of  maintaining 
inviolate  the  rights  of  the  states  and  defending  the  soil  of 
every  state  and  territory  from  lawless  invasion,  and  of  pre- 
serving the  integrity  of  this  Union  and  the  supremacy  of  the 
constitution  and  laws  passed  in  pursuance  thereof  against  the 
conspiracy  of  the  leaders  of  a  sectional  party,  to  resist  the 
majority  principle  as  established  in  this  government  even  at 
the  expense  of  its  existence,  are  invited  to  send  from  each 
state  two  delegates  from  every  congressional  district,  and  four 
delegates  at  large,  to  the  Convention." 

EDWIN  D.  MORGAN,  New  York,  Chairman. 

JOSEPH  BARTLETT,  MAINE. 

GEORGE  G.  FOGG,  New  Hampshire. 

LAWRENCE  BKAINARD,  Vermont. 

JOHN  Z.  GOODRICH,  Massachusetts, 

GIDEON  WELLES,  Connecticut. 

THOMAS  WILLIAMS,  Pennsylvania. 

GEORGE  HARRIS,  Maryland. 

ALFRED  CALDWELL,  Virginia. 

THOMAS  SPOONER,  Ohio. 

CASSIUS  M.  CLAY,  Kentucky. 

JAMES  SHERMAN,  New  Jersey. 

CORNELIUS  COLE,  California. 

JAMES  RITCHEY,  Indiana. 

NORMAN  B.  JDDD,  Illinois. 

ZACHARIAH  CHANDLER,  Michigan. 


JOHN  H.  TWEEDY,  Wisconsin. 
ALEXANDER  RAMSEY,  Minnesota. 
ANDREW  J.  STEVENS,  Iowa. 
ASA  S.  JONES,  Missouri. 
MARTIN  F.  CON  WAY,  Kansas. 
LEWIS  CLEPIIANE,  District  of  Columbia. 
WILLIAM  M.  CHACE,  Rhode  Island. 
O.  P.  SCHOOLFIELD,  Tennessee. 
E.  D.  WILLIAMS,  Delaware. 

In  compliance  therewith,  the  people  have  sent  representa- 
tives here  to  deliberate  upon  measures  for  carrying  into  effect 
the  objects  of  the  call. 

Usage  has  made  it  my  duty  to  take  the  preliminary  step 
toward  organizing  the  Convention — a  Convention  upon  the 
proceedings  of  which,  permit  me  to  say,  the  most  momentous 
results  are  depending.  No  body  of  men  of  equal  number  was 
ever  clothed  with  greater  responsibility  than  those  now  within 
the  hearing  of  my  voice.  You  do  not  need  me  to  tell  you, 
gentlemen,  what  this  responsibility  is.  While  one  portion  of 
the  adherents  of  the  National  administration  are  endeavoring 
to  insert  a  slave  code  into  the  party  platform,  another  portion 
exhibits  its  readiness  to  accomplish  the  same  result  through 
the  action  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  [ap- 
plause] ;  willing  by  indirection  to  do  that  which,  if  done 
directly,  would  bring  a  blush  even  to  the  cheek  of  modern 
Democracy.  [Cheers  and  laughter.] 

While  these  and  other  stupendous  wrongs,  absolutely 
shocking  to  the  moral  sentiment  of  the  country,  are  to  be 
fastened  upon  the  people  by  the  party  in  power,  if  its  leaders 
are  able  to  bring  the  factious  elements  that  compose  it  into 
any  degree  of  unanimity,  there  seems  left  no  ray  of  hope 
except  in  the  good  sense  of  this  Convention.  [Great  ap- 
plause.] 

Let  me  then  invoke  you  to  act  in  a  spirit  of  harmony,  that 
by  the  dignity,  the  wisdom  and  the  patriotism  displayed  here 
you  may  be  enabled  to  enlist  the  hearts  of  the  people,  and  to 


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strengthen  them  in  the  faith  that  yours  is  the  constitutional 
party  of  the  country,  and  the  only  constitutional  party  ;  that 
you  are  actuated  by  principle,  and  that  you  will  be  guided 
by  the  light  and  by  the  example  of  the  fathers  of  the  republic. 
[Renewed  cheers]. 

Fortunately  you  are  not  required  to  enunciate  new  and 
untried  principles  of  government.  This  has  been  well  and 
wisely  done  by  the  statesmen  of  the  revolution.  [Applause.] 
Stand  where  they  stood,  avowing  and  maintaining  the  like 
objects  and  doctrines ;  then  will  the  end  sought  be  accom- 
plished ;  the  constitution  and  the  Union  be  preserved;  and 
the  government  be  administered  by  patriots  and  statesmen. 

For  temporary  President,  I  now  nominate  Hon.  DAVID 
WILMOT,  of  Pennsylvania.  [Great  and  prolonged  applause.] 

The  nomination  was  acceded  to  by  the  unanimous  voice  of 
the  Convention,  and  the  Chairman  appointed  Hon.  WM.  L. 
MARSHALL,  of  Maryland,  and  Hon.  C.  F.  CLEVELAND,  of 
Connecticut,  to  conduct  the  temporary  President  to  the 
Chair. 

The  appearance  of  Mr.  WILMOT  was  made  the  opportunity 
for  loud  and  prolonged  manifestations  of  applause. 

In  introducing  the  temporary  President  to  the  Convention 
Gov.  CLEVELAND  said : 

GENTLEMEN  OF  THE  CONVENTION:  I  have  now  the  high 
honor  of  introducing  to  the  Convention  a  gentleman  whose 
name  is  known  to  every  lover  of  liberty  throughout  this  land, 
the  Hon.  DAVID  WILMOT,  of  Pennsylvania — a  man  who  dares 
to  do  the  right,  regardless  of  consequences.  With  such  men 
for  our  leaders  and  spokesmen,  there  is  no  such  word  as  fail. 
[Loud  cheers.] 

On  taking  the  Chair,  Mr.  WILMOT  said : 

I  have  no  words  in  which  properly  to  express  my  sense  of 
honor — and  the  undeserved  one,  I  think  it  is — of  being  called 
upon  to  preside  temporarily  over  the  deliberations  of  this 
Convention.  I  shall  not  attempt  a  task  which  I  feel  inade- 


quate  to  perform.  Be  sure,  gentlemen,  that  I  am  not  insensi- 
ble to  this  high  and  undeserved  honor.  I  shall  carry  the 
recollection  of  it,  and  of  your  manifestation  of  partiality, 
with  me  until  the  day  of  my  death.  It  is  not  necessary  for 
me,  gentlemen,  delegates,  to  remind  you  of  the  importance 
of  the  occasion  that  has  called  this  assemblage  together ;  nor 
of  the  high  duties  which  devolve  upon  you.  A  great  sectional 
and  aristocratic  party,  or  interest,  has  for  years  dominated 
with  a  high  hand  over  the  political  affairs  of  this  country. 
That  interest  has  wrested,  and  is  now  wresting,  all  the  great 
powers  of  this  government  to  the  one  object  of  the  extension 
and  nationalization  of  slavery.  It  is  our  purpose,  gentlemen, 
it  is  the  mission  of  the  Republican  party  and  the  basis  of  its 
organization,  to  resist  this  policy  of  a  sectional  interest.  It 
is  our  mission  to  restore  this  government  to  its  original  policy, 
and  place  it  again  in  that  rank  upon  which  our  fathers 
organized  and  brought  it  into  existence.  It  is  our  purpose 
and  our  policy  to  resist  these  new  constitutional  dogmas  that 
slavery  exists  by  virtue  of  the  constitution  wherever  the 
banner  of  this  Union  floats.  It  is  our  purpose  to  restore  the 
constitution  to  its  original  meaning  ;  to  give  to  it  its  true  in- 
terpretation ;  to  read  that  instrument  as  our  fathers  read  it, 
[Applause  ]  That  instrument  was  not  ordained  and  estab- 
lished for  the  purpose  of  intrenching  slavery  within  the  limits 
of  this  country ;  it  was  not  ordained  and  established  for  the 
purpose  of  giving  high  guarantees  and  securities  to  that 
institution.  Our  fathers  regarded  slavery  as  a  blot  upon  this 
country.  They  went  down  into  their  graves  with  the  earnest 
hope  and  confident  belief  that  but  a  few  more  years  and  that 
blot  would  be  extinguished  from  our  land.  [Much  applause.] 
This  was  the  faith  in  which  they  died.  [Applause.]  Had 
the  proposition  been  presented  to  them  in  the  early  conflicts 
of  the  revolution,  or  outside  of  that  grand  movement,  that 
they  were  called  upon  to  endure  the  hazards,  trials  and  sacri- 
fices of  that  long  and  perilous  contest  for  the  purpose  of 
establishing  on  this  continent  a  great  slave  empire,  not  on-3  of 
them  would  have  drawn  his  sword  in  such  a  cause.  [Great 


applause]  No,  citizens  !  This  republic  was  established  for 
the  purpose  of  securing  the  guarantees  of  liberty,  of  justice 
and  of  righteousness  to  the  people  and  to  their  posterity.  That 
was  the  great  object  with  which  the  revolution  was  fought, 
these  were  the  purposes  for  which  the  union  and  constitution 
were  formed.  Slavery  is  sectional.  Liberty  national.  [Im- 
mense applause.]  Fellow  citizens:  need  I  remind  this  intelli- 
gent and  vast  audience — need  I  call  to  mind  to  the  intelligent 
gentlemen  who  represent  the  various  states  represented  upon 
this  floor — manifestations  of  lawless  violence,  of  tyranny  such 
as  the  world  never  saw  in  a  civilized  and  Christian  land  that 
is  manifested  by  this  spirit  of  slavery.  Whose  rights  are 
secure  where  slavery  has  the  power  to  trample  them  under 
foot?  Who  to-day  is  not  more  free  to  utter  his  opinions 
within  the  empire  of  Kussia,  or  under  the  shadow  of  the 
despotism  of  Austria  than  he  is  within  the  limits  of  the  slave 
states  of  this  Republic?  Will  their  tyranny  be  confined  to 
those  states  when  they  have  the  power  to  enforce  it  upon  us? 
[Voices — "  No  !  never !  "]  We  owe  the  liberty  which  we 
to-day  enjoy  in  the  free  states,  to  the  absence  of  slavery. 
And,  fellow  citizens,  shall  we,  in  building  up  this  great  empire 
of  ours,  in  fulfilling  that  high  and  sacred  trust  imposed  upon 
us  by  our  fathers  —  shall  we  support  this  blighting,  this 
demoralizing  institution  throughout  the  vast  extent  of  our 
borders?  [Voices,  loudly — "No!"]  Or  shall  we  preserve 
this  land  as  a  free  land  to  our  posterity  forever?  These  are 
the  principles  for  which  the  Republican  party  is  struggling. 
Fellow  citizens,  the  safety  of  our  liberty,  the  security  of  all 
we  hold  valuable,  demands  that  we  should  take  possession  of 
this  government  and  administer  it  upon  those  broad  constitu- 
tional doctrines  that  were  recognized  for  the  first  sixty  years 
of  the  existence  of  our  government  —  that  were  recognized  by 
Washington,  by  Jefferson,  by  Adams,  by  Madison,  by  Monroe, 
by  Adams  the  younger,  by  Jackson,  by  Van  Buren,  even 
down  to  the  time  of  Polk,  when  this  new  dogma  was  started 
that  the  constitution  was  established  to  guarantee  to  slavery 
perpetual  existence  and  unlimited  empire.  Invoking,  fellow 


citizens,  a  spirit  of  patriotism  and  harmony,  and  trusting  that 
that  spirit  will  guide  us  to  a  fortunate  result  in  our  delibera- 
tions, I  will  now  enter  upon  the  discharge  of  the  duties  which 
have  been  assigned  to  me.  [Great  applause.] 

Hon.  THOMAS  SPOONER,  of  Ohio,  moved  that  Frederick 
Hassaurek,  of  Ohio,  Theodore  M.  Pomeroy,  of  New  York,  and 
Henry  T.  Blow,  of  Missouri,  be  elected  temporary  Secretaries. 

The  motion  was  carried  unanimously. 

The  PRESIDENT  then  introduced  the  Eev.  Z.  H.  HUMPHREY, 
Pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Chicago,  who 
addressed  the  Throne  of  Grace  in  the  following  prayer : 

Oh,  Lord  God!  Thou  art  great  and  greatly  to  be  praised. 
We  come  before  Thy  Throne  to  worship  and  also  to  learn 
Thy  will.  We  invoke  Thy  presence  and  Thy  blessing,  as  we 
gather  beneath  this  roof  to-day.  We  praise  Thee  for  what 
Thou  art,  and  for  what  Thou  hast  done  for  us.  Verily,  "  our 
lines  have  fallen  to  us  in  pleasant  places,  and  we  have  a  good- 
ly heritage."  Thou  hast  strengthened  the  bars  of  our  gates, 
and  placed  our  children  within  them.  Thou  hast  made  peace 
in  our  borders,  and  filled  us  with  the  finest  of  the  wheat. 
Thou  hast  not  dealt  so  by  any  nation.  As  for  Thy  judgments 
we  have  not  known  them ;  and  yet  we  confess  that  we  have 
deserved  to  suffer  for  we  have  sinned  against  Thee.  We 
entreat  Thy  forgiveness  for  all  our  transgressions,  and  Thy 
protection  from  all  consequences  of  sin.  We  pray  for  our 
common  country.  We  ask  that  Thou  wilt  deliver  us  from  all 
the  evil  to  which  we  are  exposed,  and  that  Thou  wilt  make 
us  to  shake  off  and  put  away  all  those  evils  which  we  are  too 
apt  to  cherish.  Wilt  Thou  bless  our  rulers,  and  teach  them 
to  govern  in  the  fear  of  God,  and  in  the  love  of  man.  Wilt 
Thou  deliver  us  from  corruption,  from  oppression  and  from 
selfish  ambition.  Show  us  Thy  way  of  rescuing  the  oppressed 
from  the  house  of  bondage,  and  of  making  this  country  truly 
and  consistently  free.  We  crave  Thy  blessing  upon  this  Con- 
vention, and  pray  that  Thou  wilt  enable  all  those  who  are 


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here  gathered  to  act,  amid  the  excitements  of  the  hour,  as 
feeling  their  responsibility  to  their  fellow  men,  and  as  know- 
ing that  they  will  one  day  stand  before  Thee.  Wilt  Thou 
bless  us  in  all  that  we  do  ?  Wilt  Thou  rule  amid  all  the  con- 
flicts of  opinion  and  the  strifes  of  parties ;  and  may  the  issue 
be  for  Thy  glory,  and  for  our  good.  May  there  be  no  strife, 
but  that  of  brethren  loving,  while  yet  in  opinion  disagreeing. 
Let  not  the  ploughshare  of  division  be  permanently  driven 
through  our  fair  land.  May  we  live  as  a  Christian  country  ; 
and  though  we  put  not  our  trust  in  princes,  may  we  be  that 
happy  land  whose  God  is  the  Lord,  which  we  ask  through 
Jesus  Christ,  our  Saviour:  Amen! 

Mr.  NORMAN  B.  JUDD,  of  Illinois,  moved  that  a  committee, 
consisting  of  one  delegate  from  each  state  and  territory  repre_ 
sented  in  the  Convention,  or  selected  by  the  delegates  thereof, 
who  should  report  officers  to  the  Convention  for  its  perma- 
nent organization. 

The  motion  was  carried. 

Mr.  JUDD  moved  that  the  roll  of  both  states  be  now  called 
for  the  purpose  of  selecting  the  committee. 

The  motion  was  carried. 

The  states  were  then  called,  and  the  committee  constituted 
as  follows : 

Maine, Leonard  Andrews. 

Vermont, Hugh  L.  Henry. 

New  Hampshire, Aaron  H.  Cragin. 

Massachusetts, Linus  B.  Comins. 

Connecticut, Arthur  B.  Calef. 

Rhode  Island, Simon  H.  Greene. 

New  York, Henry  H.  Van  Dyck. 

New  Jersey, Ephraim  Marsh. 

Pennsylvania T.  J.  Coffey. 

Delaware, Joshua  T.  Heald. 

Maryland, James  Jeffries. 

Virginia, Edward  M.  Norton. 


Ohio, V.  B.  Horton. 

Indiana, P.  A.  Hackleman. 

Illinois, William  Eoss. 

Michigan, Walter  W.  Murphy. 

Wisconsin, John  P.  McGregor. 

Iowa, James  F.  Wilson. 

Minnesota, Simeon  Smith. 

Missouri, Allen  Hammer. 

Kansas, A.  C.  Wilder. 

California, Samuel  Bell. 

Oregon, Frank  Johnson. 

Kentucky, Allen  A.  Burton. 

Texas, M.  T.  E.  Chandler. 

Nebraska- O.  H.  Irish. 

District  Columbia, George  B.  Hall. 

A  delegate  from  Kentucky  suggested  that  the  names  of  all 
the  states  of  the  Union  be  called. 

The  PRESIDENT  then  proceeded  to  call  Tennessee,  Arkan- 
sas, Mississippi,  Louisiana,  Alabama,  Georgia,  South  Carolina 
and  North  Carolina. 

No  responses  were  made  to  the  calls. 

Hon.  JACOB  BENTON,  of  New  Hampshire,  moved  that  a 
committee,  consisting  of  one  delegate  from  each  state  and  ter- 
ritory represented  in  the  Convention,  be  selected  by  the  dele- 
gates thereof,  to  act  on  the  credentials  of  delegates,  rules  and 
appointments,  and  that  they  be  instructed  to  make  a  report 
of  the  number,  name  and  post  office  address  of  each  delegate, 
together  with  rules  for  the  government  of  the  Convention. 

A  delegate  from  Indiana  suggested  that  the  motion  of  Mr. 
BENTON  be  divided  —  that  two  committees  be  appointed,  one 
on  CREDENTIALS,  and  the  other  on  the  ORDER  OF  BUSINESS. 

Mr.  SPOONER,  of  Ohio  :  If  I  understand,  it  is  intended  that 
we  should  have  two  committees,  or  it  was  so  suggested  by 


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the  Executive  Committee,  and  we  had  acted  in  accordance 
with  that  suggestion.  I  would  suggest  that  there  be  simply 
a  Committee  on  Credentials. 

Mr.  BENTON  accepted  the  amendment  proposed  by  the  de- 
legate from  Indiana,  and  the  PRESIDENT  called  the  will  of 
the  states,  and  the  committee  was  constituted  as  follows: 

Maine, Rensselaer  Cram. 

New  Hampshire, Jacob  Benton. 

Vermont, Edward  C.  Redington. 

Massachusetts, Timothy  Davis. 

Connecticut, E.  K.  Foster. 

Rhode  Island, Benedict  Lapham. 

New  York, Palmer  V.  Kellogg. 

New  Jersey, Moses  M.  Webb. 

Pennsylvania, J.  N.  Purviance. 

Delaware, Lewis  Thompson. 

Maryland, William  E.  Cole. 

Virginia, Jacob  Hornbrook. 

Kentucky Charles  Pendley. 

Ohio, Samuel  Stoksley. 

Indiana, John  R.  Cravens. 

Illinois, Stephen  T  Logan. 

Michigan, Frank  Quinn. 

Wisconsin, H.  L.  Rann. 

Iowa, C.  F.  Clarkson. 

Minnesota, John  McCusick. 

Missouri, James  G.  Grardenhire. 

Kansas, William  A.  Phillips. 

Nebraska, John  R.  Meredeth. 

California, Charles  Watrous. 

Oregon, Joel  Burlingame. 

Texas, D.  Henderson. 

District  Columbia, James  A.  White. 


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Mr.  NOBLE,  of  Iowa,  moved  that  a  committee,  consisting  of 
one  delegate  from  each  state  and  territory,  represented  in  the 
Convention,  be  selected  by  the  delegates  thereof,  to  prepare 
the  ORDER  OF  BUSINESS  for  the  Convention. 

The  motion  was  carried. 

On  calling  the  roll  of  the  states  by  the  PRESIDENT,  the  fol- 
lowing gentlemen  were  constituted  such  committee  : 

Maine, « Job  n  L.  Stevens. 

New  Hampshire, B.  F.  Martin. 

Vermont, Edward  D.  Mason. 

Massachusetts, Samuel  Hooper. 

Connecticut, George  H.  Noble. 

Rhode  Island Nath.  B.  Durfee. 

Neiv  York, A.  B.  James. 

New  Jersey, H.  N.  Congar. 

Pennsylvania, William  D.  Kelly. 

Delaware, John  C.  Clarke. 

Maryland,  — William  P.  Ewing. 

Virginia, John  G.  Jenks. 

Ohio, R.  M.  Corwine. 

Kentucky Louis  M.  Dembitz. 

Indiana, Walter  March. 

Michigan, Austin  Blair. 

Illinois, Thomas  A.  Marshall. 

Wisconsin, Elisha  Morrow. 

Minnesota, S.  P.  Jones. 

Iowa, Reuben  Noble. 

Missouri, Thomas  G  Fletcher. 

California, J.  C.  Hinckley. 

Oregon, Eli  Thayer. 

Kansas, A.  G.  Proctor. 

Nebraska, Samuel  H.  Elbert. 

District  Columbia, Joseph  Gerhard. 

Texas, G.  Moyers 


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A  delegate  from  Pennsylvania  moved  that  the  rules  of  the 
House  of  Representatives  be  adopted  for  the  government  of 
the  Convention  until  otherwise  ordered. 

The  motion  was  carried. 

Hon.  EPHRAIM  MARSH,  of  New  Jersey,  moved  that  the 
Secretary  call  the  names  of  the  respective  States  in  the  order 
in  which  they  are  called  in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States, 
and  that  as  they  were  called  the  delegates  from  each  State 
present  their  credentials. 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio:  I  supposed  that  we  had  just  consti- 
tuted a  Committee  on  Credentials,  and  my  purpose  for  voting 
for  that  committee  was  to  get  rid  of  all  the  labor  of  doing 
their  work.  Now  it  is  proposed  to  take  the  labor  out  of  their 
hands  and  do  it  here  in  the  Convention.  Having  voted  it 
once  to  be  done  by  the  committee  I  do  not  want  it  brought 
back  here,  and  I  shall  vote  against  any  such  proceeding.  I 
move  to  lay  the  motion  on  the  table. 

Mr.  MARSH  :  I  withdraw  the  resolution. 

Mr.  GREELEY,  of  Oregon :  I  would  like  to  move  a  substi- 
tute to  that  resolution.  In  place  of  it  I  move  that  the  roll 
of  the  States  be  now  called  over,  and  as  each  is  called  the 
chairman  of  that  delegation  present  the  credentials  of  that 
delegation,  and  if  any  question  arises  as  to  the  credentials,  or 
right  of  any  to  sit  here,  let  it  be  referred  to  the  Committee 
on  Credentials. 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  move  an  amendment.  I  move  to  amend 
the  proposition  of  the  gentleman  from  Oregon,  or  New  York* 
(Mr.  Greeley,)  I  am  not  sure  which  [Laughter],  that  instead 
of  each  delegation  presenting  their  credentials  here,  they  pre- 
sent them  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

Mr.  GREELET  :  I  accept  the  amendment  of  the  gentleman 
from  Maryland,  or  Rhode  Island,  I  am  not  particular  which. 
[Laughter  and  applause.] 


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The  motion  of  Mr.  Greeley  was  then  carried. 

Mr.  CARTER  inquired  if  the  gentleman  from  Oregon.  (Mr. 
Greeley)  adopted  his  amendment. 

Mr.  GREELEY  replied  that  he  had. 

A  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania  inquired  who  the  chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was. 

THE  PRESIDENT  stated  that  the  committee  would  be  an- 
nounced soon. 

Mr.  GREELEY  :  Now  I  trust  that  the  Convention  sees  the 
propriety  of  the  course  I  suggested,  of  producing  the  creden- 
tials at  once,  here,  and  referring  disputed  questions  to  the 
Committee  on  Credentials. 

Mr.  EVARTS,  of  New  York  :  Upon  this  Committee  of  Cre- 
dentials each  state  and  territory  has  a  member ;  why  should 
not,  then,  each  state  and  territory  commit  its  credentials  to 
its  member  of  that  committee,  to  be  presented  to  it  ? 

[VOICES  :  That's  the  way.] 

Mr.  EVARTS  :  I  move  accordingly,  that  the  credentials  of 
each  delegation  be  handed  to  its  member  of  the  Committee 
on  Credentials,  to  be  presented  to  that  body. 

A  DELEGATE  OF  OHIO:  A  resolution  has  already  passed 
requiring  that  the  credentials  be  committed  to  the  chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  and  I  rose  to  suggest  that 
what  is  done  by  an  agent  is  done  by  the  party,  and  without 
this  motion  at  all  they  can  pass  them  through  their  com- 
mittee man  to  the  chairman  of  the  committee. 

The  PRESIDENT:  Is  the  gentleman  from  New  York  satis- 
fied that  his  resolution  is  covered  by  the  one  passed  ? 

Mr.  EVARTS  :  Undoubtedly,  if  it  is  understood  that  no  call 
of  the  states  is  necessary. 


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The  PRESIDENT  :  No  call  is  necessary  under  any  resolution 
yet  passed. 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  the  reception  of  the  following 
invitation  : 

CHICAGO,  May  16,  I860. 
To  the  President  of  the  Republican  Convention : 

The  Board  of  Trade  of  this  city  hereby  invite  the  delegates 
to  your  Convention,  and  other  visitors  to  our  city,  to  a  short 
excursion  on  Lake  Michigan  ;  the  excursion  to  leave  the  dock. 
at  Bush  Street  bridge,  near  the  Richmond  House,  at  five 
o'clock  this  afternoon. 

Signed,        J.  S.  RAMSEY, 

Chairman  of  the  Committee. 

Hon.  AARON  GTOODRICH,  of  Minnesota :  I  have  been  re- 
quested, in  behalf  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of  this  city,  to  elicit, 
so  far  as  may  be  by  a  mere  remark  and  not  a  speech,  what 
shall  be  the  sentiment  of  this  Convention  touching  that  pro- 
position from  the  Board  of  Trade.  When  I  cast  my  eye 
about  this  vast  tabernacle,  that  has  been  reared  by  the  skill, 
the  taste  and  the  munificence  of  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  of 
Chicago,  and  which  has  been  tendered  to  the  great  Republi- 
can cause  without  money  and  without  price  [great  applause], 
I  apprehend  that  every  delegate  in  this  Convention  will 
respond  aye  to  the  invitation.  I  have  nothing  more  to  say. 
[Great  applause.] 

Mr.  DUDLEY,  of  New  Jersey :  I  move,  Sir,  that  there  be  a 
committee  of  five  appointed  to  inform  the  Board  of  Trade 
that  we  accept  the  invitation  for  five  o'clock,  and  that  the 
committee  be  appointed  by  the  Chair. 

A  DELEGATE  FROM  IOWA  :  I  move  you  that  it  be  embraced 
in  that  resolution  that  the  thanks  of  this  Convention  be  ten- 
dered to  the  Board  of  Trade  for  their  very  liberal  offer. 

Amendment  accepted,  and  resolution  as  amended  adopted. 


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[Three  cheers  for  the  ladies  of  Chicago  were  called  for  and 
heartily  responded  to.] 

Mr.  GREELEY  :  Have  we  provided  for  the  Committee  on 
Platform  ? 

The  PRESIDENT  :  We  have  not. 

Mr.  GREELEY  :  Then  I  move  we  have  a  call  of  the  states 
for  the  purpose  of  appointing  a  Committee  on  Platform. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Will  that  be  in  order  until  after  the  per- 
manent organization  ? 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio :  I  move  the  appointment  of  a  com- 
mittee of  one  from  each  state  by  the  respective  delegations  from 
the  several  states,  to  report  resolutions  and  a  platform,  and 
that  the  committee  be  made  up  in  the  ordinary  manner  by 
calling  the  roll  of  the  states. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  gentleman  from  Oregon  has  already 
moved  that. 

Mr.  GREELEY  :  I  withdraw  mine. 

Mr.  B.  OYLER,  of  Indiana:  I  move  to  lay  the  motion  on 
the  table,  until  after  the  permanent  organization. 

Gov.  REEDER,  of  Pennsylvania :  Will  the  Chair  inform  the 
Convention  what  motion  is  before  it  ? 

The  PRESIDENT  stated  the  motion  of  Mr.  Carter. 

Gov.  REEDER:  I  rise  to  oppose  the  motion.  It  is  the  busi- 
ness of  this  Convention  now  to  perfect  its  organization.  You 
have  appointed  a  Committee  on  Credentials,  on  the  Order  of 
Business,  and  on  Permanent  Organization,  and  because  we 
are  not  organized  it  seems  to  me  improper. 

A  VOICE  (on  the  opposite  side  of  the  house) :  Speak 
louder — we  cannot  hear  you. 


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Gov.  REEDER:  All  I  have  to  say  is  not  worth  talking  to 
those  at  the  other  end  of  the  platform.  I  merely  desire  to 
say,  that  I  think  this  motion,  at  this  time,  is  out  of  place.  It 
will  be  time  enough  to  provide  for  a  platform  and  resolutions 
when  we  shall  have  organized  this  Convention,  and  we  are 
appointing  committees  now  simply  because  we  are  not  orga- 
nized. This  matter  of  a  platform  and  resolutions  is  not  a 
preliminary  affair.  It  is  not  at  all  necessary  to  our  organiza- 
tion, and  therefore  it  is  upon  the  same  footing  with  the 
nomination  of  a  candidate,  and  should  wait  until  the  perma- 
nent and  perfect  organization  of  the  Convention  before  it 
should  be  entered  upon. 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  made  that  motion  with  the  view  of  putting 
the  Convention  at  work;  whether  the  resolution  is  passed 
to-day  or  to-morrow,  it  will  be  passed  by  the  same  body  of 
men,  and  with  the  view  to  the  declaration  of  their  senti- 
ments. It  is  a  laborious  work,  and  ought  to  be  performed 
while  the  Convention  is  in  its  vigor.  The  Chairman  cannot 
fail  to  have  remarked  the  indisposition  to  labor,  when  within 
fifteen  minutes  after  getting  together,  a  pleasure  excursion 
is  voted  here.  I  hope  it  will  be  a  pleasant  one,  but  I  think 
before  we  take  it,  we  had  better  designate  those  who  will 
enter  upon  the  performances  of  the  sphere  of  labor  in  this 
Convention,  and  we  can  do  it  as  well  now  as  at  any  time. 

Mr.  ELI  THAYER,  of  Oregon  :  I  am  opposed  to  the  amend- 
ment which  has  been  offered  by  the  gentleman  from  Penn- 
sylvania. I  do  not  consider  that  the  mere  appointment  of 
this  committee  is  at  all  inconsistent  with  the  preliminary 
business  of  this  Convention.  It  is  not  proposed  and  it  is  not 
expected  that  this  committee  will  report  to-day.  It  is  im- 
portant, as  the  gentleman  who  preceded  me  has  said,  that 
this  committee  should  have  ample  time  to  consider  what 
shall  be  the  platform  of  the  Republican  party  in  the  coming 
campaign.  This,  sir,  is  the  great  burden  of  the  work  of  this 
Convention,  and  I  hope  there  will  be  no  time  lost  in  appoint- 


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ing  this  committee,  and  that  they  themselves  will  lose  no 
time  in  the  labor  that  is  entrusted  to  their  hands.  I  am, 
therefore,  opposed  to  this  amendment,  which  proposes  delay. 
The  states  and  territories  are  ready  to  name  the  man  who 
shall  constitute  for  each  a  member  of  this  committee.  The 
State  of  Oregon  is  ready  now.  [Cries  of  "  Question."] 

Mr.  HAZARD,  of  Rhode  Island :  The  gentlemen  who  advo- 
cated the  postponement  are  right  in  theory,  but  it  is  obvious 
that  the  practical  operations  of  this  Convention  would  be 
retarded  by  a  postponement.  I  hope,  therefore,  the  motion  to 
postpone  will  be  withdrawn. 

Gov.  REEDER:  The  gentleman  says  we  are  right.  If  we 
are  right  why  should  we  be  voted  down  ?  It  seems  to  me 
that  when  gentlemen  concede  that  we  are  right,  there  is 
generally  nothing  remaining  to  do  but  to  carry  out  the  right. 
We  are  transgressing  the  right  here,  and  for  the  purpose  of 
what?  For  the  purpose  of  convenience,  and  because  it  can 
make  no  difference.  It  may  make  no  difference  now,  but  the 
time  may  come,  and  will  come,  when  it  will  make  a  difference, 
and  then  this  action  will  be  cited  as  a  precedent.  I  am  opposed 
to  making  bad  precedents.  I  believe  that  the  only  way  to 
pursue  is  to  do  it  right  and  in  order.  If  you  appoint  a  com- 
mittee, what  is  to  prevent  that  committee  from  reporting  to 
this  Convention  before  you  have  made  a  permanent  organiza- 
tion "?  And  if  they  do  so  report,  what  is  to  prevent  a  ma- 
jority of  this  Convention  passing  upon  the  resolutions  and 
platform  before  you  are  organized  ?  Do  the  gentlemen  desire 
to  see  that  ?  Do  they  desire  to  establish  a  precedent  such  as 
that,  which  may  be  used  at  some  great  crisis  in  the  future 
for  purposes  of  evil  ?  It  is  admitted  that  we  are  right,  and 
it  seems  to  me  that  there  the  question  ends. 

Mr.  CARTER:  The  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania  is  begging 
a  little  more  than  I  am  willing  to  grant.     I  do  not  feel   that 
the  first  movement    is  right.     There  is  no  such  concession  in 
3 


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this  quarter  of  the  hall.  [Loud  cries  of  "  Question,"  which 
interrupting  the  speaker,  lie  took  his  seat.] 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Oyler,  of  Indiana,  to  layover  the  motion 
to  appoint  a  Committee  on  Platform  and  Resolutions  until 
after  the  permanent  organization  of  the  Convention,  was  then 
put  to  vote  and  lost. 

Hon.  J.  T.  HOGEBOOM,  of  New  York  :  I  move  to  amend 
the  motion  to  appoint  a  Committee  on  Platform  and  Resolu- 
tions, by  adding,  "  that  the  committee  report  as  soon  as  con- 
venient after  the  permanent  organization  of  the  Convention." 

Mr.  CARTER:  I  accept  the  amendment. 

Mr.  OYLER:  We  have  already  appointed  a  Committee  on 
Credentials,  and  for  what?  To  know  authoritatively  and 
legally  who  have  a  right  to  a  seat  upon  this  floor.  Now,  sir, 
we  are  going  on  to  provide  for  the  most  important  thing  that 
this  Convention  will  do,  except  the  designation  of  the  man 
who  shall  bear  our  standard.  I  shall  not  attempt  to  say  that 
there  is  one  man  on  this  floor  not  legally  entitled  to  his  seat ; 
but  we  have  no  evidence  of  the  fact.  It  is  true,  we  have 
entered  upon  this  floor,  and  have  arranged  ourselves  at  the 
different  points  which  we  designated  by  the  names  of  the 
states,  and  the  fair  presumption  is,  that  the  men  who  fill 
these  seats  are  honestly  entitled  to  them  ;  but  that  is  no 
proof  of  the  fact,  and  I  undertake  to  say  that  this  proceeding 
is  against  all  precedent,  and  a  bad  precedent  to  be  set  by  a 
Republican  Convention.  Why  this  haste  ?  We  will  "work 
in  haste  and  repent  at  leisure."  What  harm  can  be  done  by 
deferring  this  until  after  the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organ- 
ization report,  and  the  Convention  organizes  itself  as  a  Repub- 
lican National  Convention  ?  We  are  not  that  yet.  I  hope 
the  delegates  will  consider  —  that  they  will  stop.  Let  us  be 
organized  before  we  do,  or  undertake  to  do,  the  most  impor- 
tant work  we  have  met  to  accomplish. 


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Mr.  GrREELEY  :  If  there  is  any  question  here  as  to  the  right 
of  any  delegation  on  this  floor,  I  am  willing  that  this  matter 
should  not  be  urged.  But  if  there  is  none,  then  let  us  have 
this  committee  appointed.  It  will  take  thirty-six  hours  for 
the  committee  to  prepare  their  report,  and  the  committee 
should  be  appointed  now  so  they  can  have  full  opportunity. 
If  there  is  any  question  as  to  the  right  of  any  delegates,  we 
will  waive  it. 

Grov.  BOUTWELL,  of  Massachusetts :  The  first  thing  for  us 
is  to  be  right.  We  are  assembled  not  for  deliberation,  but  for 
organization.  Let  us  organize  and  then  deliberate  ;  and  until 
we  have  perfected  our  organization,  it  will  be  a  dangerous 
precedent  to  set  up  here,  with  reference  to  a  new  party  that 
is  organized  for  the  government  of  this  country,  through  a 
generation,  to  establish  a  precedent  which,  when  contestants 
come  here  from  the  Pacific  and  the  South,  will  lead  to  diffi- 
,  culties  on  the  floor.  We  have  time  enough.  Better  devote 
it  to  the  organization  of  this  convention  rather  than  to  an 
excursion;  thankful  as  we  are  for  the  hospitality  of  the  city, 
we  have  a  greater  duty  to  perform  to  this  country.  I  move 
to  lay  this  (Mr.  Carter's)  resolution  on  the  table. 

The  motion  of  Gov.  Boutwell  to  lay  on  the  table  was 
carried.  [Loud  cheers.] 

Mr.  SWEETZER,  of  Massachusetts:  I  move  that  when  this 
convention  adjourn,  it  adjourn  to  meet  at  3  o'clock  this  after- 
noon. The  reason  why  I  move  this  is,  that  it  seems  to  me 
desirable  that  we  should  sometime  proceed  with  the  business 
of  the  convention.  If  we  are  going  to  take  up  the  time  in 
excursions  on  the  lake,  I  do  not  know  when  we  will  have 
time  for  business.  I  am  willing  to  change  the  time,  if  any- 
body can  tell  us  that  we  can  return  from  the  excursion  in 
time  for  a  meeting  of  business  this  evening. 

Mr.  BEN.  EGGLESTON,  of  Ohio :  I  move  to  amend  by 
making  the  time  10  o'clock  to-morrow  morning.  Now,  Mr. 


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President,  I  am  very  well  satisfied  that  the  motion  just  voted 
down,  in  reference  to  the  resolution,  will  make  the  convention 
one  day  longer,  and  we  delegates  from  Ohio,  some  of  us,  are 
running  out  of  funds.  [Laughter.]  It  will  take  a  day  or  two 
longer.  It  takes  an  hour  and  a  half  to  seat  the  delegates, 
and  to  seat  outsiders  from  two  to  four  hours.  [Laughter.]  I 
want  it  understood  that  I  came  here  to  work,  and  am  not 
going  on  the  lake;  nor  is  any  delegate  who  came  here  to 
work.  But  I  am  willing  to  amend  my  motion  by  making 
it  5  o'clock  if  desired. 

Hon.  A.  B.  JAMES,  of  New  York  :  If  we  had  appointed 
the  Committee  on  Platform  and  Resolutions,  then  we  could 
have  with  safety  adjourned  until  to-morrow  morning ;  but  we 
have  voted  that  down.  We  want  to  make  a  permanent 
organization  in  order  that  the  committee  may  be  appointed, 
so  that  it  may  have  the  resolutions  ready  to  present  to  us  to- 
morrow morning. 

Mr.  JUDD,  of  Illinios  :  It  seems  to  me,  sir,  if  you  undertake 
to  assemble  this  Convention  at  three  o'clock,  the  business  for 
which  the  Committee  on  Credentials  and  the  Committee  on 
Permanent  Organization  have  been  appointed  will  not  be 
accomplished. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Minnesota:   Make  it  four,  five  or  six. 

Mr.  JUDD  :  My  reason  for  making  the  suggestion  is,  I  be- 
lieve every  man  here  wants  his  dinner,  and  they  are  scattered 
over  the  entire  city  of  Chicago,  and  if  they  are  hungry,  as  I 
think  they  are,  before  they  can  get  their  dinners  and  meet  at 
the  committee  room  the  time  will  have  expired,  and  the  duties 
will  not  be  performed  by  the  committees  unless  some  gentle- 
man has  in  his  pocket  a  programme  to  be  followed  without 
consulting  anybody  in  regard  to  what  is  to  be  done  by  the 
committee.  I  say,  sir,  you  must  give  them  time  if  you  expect 
them  to  act  understandingly ;  and  there  is  no  time  now, 


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between  two  and  three  o'clock,   to  accomplish  the  purposes 
for  which  these  committees  have  been  appointed. 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota:  I  would  ask  the  gentleman 
to  name  the  hour  of  seven  this  evening. 

Mr.  JUDD  :  I  accept  the  amendment. 

Hon.W.  D.  KELLEY,  of  Pennsylvania  :  This  hall  is  engaged 
for  to-night,  as  I  observe  by  a  notice  in  the  city  papers  this 
morning,  for  an  exhibition  of  the  Zouave  drill. 

Mr.  JUDD:  I  beg  leave  to  say  that  this  hall  is  under  the 
control  of  this  Convention  whenever  they  want  it,  day  or 
night.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  EGGLESTOX  :  I  accept  the  amendment  to  meet  at  7 
o'clock  this  evening. 

Mr.  KELLEY,  of  Pennsylvania:  There  is  a  large  portion  of 
this  Convention  who  cannot  be  got  out  to  a  night  session. 
The  number  is  too  large  to  get  together  for  a  deliberative  Con- 
vention at  night.  I  am  opposed  to  a  night  session,  and  I 
hope  the  proposition  for  it  will  be  voted  down.  I  am  in 
favor  of  9  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 

Mr.  JAMES,  of  New  York :  If  any  gentleman  who  voted  for 
the  resolution  that  was  last  passed  against  appointing  a  Com- 
mittee on  Resolutions  will  move  to  reconsider  that  vote,  there 
will  be  no  difficulty  in  making  an  adjournment  until  to-mor- 
row morning,  unless  the  motion  to  reconsider  is  voted  down. 
We  will  lose  less  time  by  this  course.  I  cannot  make  the 
motion  as  I  voted  against  laying  on  the  table. 

A  DELEGATE:  I  move  to  take  the  resolution  from  the  table. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  I  understand  the  motion  to  be  to  recon- 
eider  the  vote  by  which  the  resolution  to  appoint  a  Committee 
on  Platform  was  laid  upon  the  table. 


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A  DELEGATE  FROM  MICHIGAN  :  I  rise  to  make  that  motion. 
I  move  that  the  motion  to  lay  on  the  table  be  reconsidered, 
and  the  appointment  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  be 
now  taken  from  the  table. 

Mr.  OYLER,  from  Indiana — [Amid  cries  of  "  Question  !  " 
"  Question  !  "]  :  I  rise  to  a  point  of  order.  The  point  I  make 
is  this  :  Is  a  motion  to  reconsider  the  last  resolution  passed 
while  there  is  a  motion  pending  for  our  adjournment  that  has 
not  been  withdrawn. 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio  :  I  rise  to  make  an  inquiry,  if  it  is  in 
order,  whether  it  is  in  order  to  reconsider  the  vote  of  this 
Convention  when  there  is  a  Lake  Excursion  pending.  [Laugh- 
ter.] 

The  PRESIDENT  :  It  is  the  opinion  of  the  Chair  that  the 
motion  to  reconsider  is  not  in  order,  for  this  reason  :  That 
there  was  pending  before  this  Convention  at  the  time  a  reso- 
lution to  adjourn  until  7  o'clock  this  evening,  and  to  that 
there  was  an  amendment  that  the  hour  be  fixed  at  9  o'clock 
to-morrow  morning. 

A  VOICE  :  That  motion  is  now  withdrawn. 
The  CHAIR:  Then  the  other  is  in  order. 
A  DELEGATE  :  I  renew  the  motion. 

The  CHAIR  :  The  question  is,  shall  the  vote  to  lay  on  the 
table  be  reconsidered. 

Mr.  PRESTON  KING,  of  New  York :  I  am  satisfied  that  one 
of  the  difficulties  in  the  progress  of  our  business  is  this  excur- 
sion on  the  lake ;  a  very  pleasant  one,  and  for  which  I  feel, 
and  I  have  no  doubt  the  entire  Convention  feels  indebted  to 
the  hospitality  and  generosity  of  the  citizens  of  Chicago. 
But  our  object  here  is  business,  and  not  pleasure.  I  trust, 
therefore,  that  we  may  make  an  adjournment  which  will  con- 


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form  to  the  convenience  of  all.  If  we  have  old  gentlemen 
here,  or  others,  who,  from  any  cause,  do  not  desire  to  have  an 
evening  session,  let  us  adjourn  to  meet  again  at  5  o'clock,  and 
we  can,  between  that  time  and  dark,  perform  the  acts  neces- 
sary to  a  complete  organization,  and  thus  save  at  least  a  day's 
time  of  the  Convention.  If  we  adjourn  until  to-morrow  we 
lose  certainly  an  entire  day.  There  is  no  doubt  of  that. 
This  Committee  on  Platform  and  Resolutions  ought  to  have 
this  evening  to  sit ;  and  while  I  did  not  regard  it  as  material 
whether  that  committee  was  appointed  before  or  after  organi- 
zation, I  am  willing  to  concede  that  it  is  more  regular  and 
more  in  accordance  with  the  parliamentary  usage  that  we  should 
take  the  course  that  was  suggested  here.  Let  us  now  act 
with  a  spirit  of  conciliation  and  unanimity  if  we  can.  I 
think  if  we  adjourn  to  5  o'clock  we  may  get  together 
and  then  organize  and  appoint  our  committees  and  be  prepared 
to-morrow  morning  to  go  to  work.  That  will  make  it,  of 
course,  impossible  or  inconvenient  to  go  on  this  excursion, 
but  that  we  must  defer.  I  move  we  adjourn  to  5  o'clock. 

Mr.  W.  E.  COALE,  of  Maryland  :  I  hope  members  of  this 
Convention  will  not  stultify  themselves  by  first  accepting  the 
invitation  so  kindly  tendered  to  us  and  then  immediately 
declining  it. 

Mr.  KING  :  lam  going  to  move  that  the  proposition  in 
relation  to  this  excursion  be  referred  to  our  Business  Com- 
mittee, between  whom  and  the  Board  of  Trade  an  arrange- 
ment can  be  made  convenient  for  both  sides. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  gentleman  from  New  York  will  please 
understand  there  is  still  pending  a  motion  to  take  from  the 
table  the  resolution  heretofore  laid  upon  the  table. 

Mr.  KING:  If  that  is  insisted  upon  we  must  take  the  voice 
of  the  Convention  upon  it.  My  object  in  making  this  motion 
was  to  see  if  we  could  not  come  to  some  understanding  or 
reach  some  conclusion  with  unanimity.  [Cries  of  "  Question," 
"  Question."] 


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The  PRESIDENT:  The  question  is,  shall  the  resolution  laid 
upon  the  table  respecting  the  platform  be  now  taken  from 
the  table  ? 

Gov.  REEDER :  Does  it  not  require  a  two-third  vote  under 
the  rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives  to  do  that? 

The  PRESIDENT:  I  think  not. 

Mr.  SWEETZER,  of  Massachusetts  :  I  moved  to  adjourn  until 
5  o'clock;  somebody  else  moved  to  amend,  and  adjourn  until 
9  or  10  o'clock  to-morrow  morning.  My  original  motion  has 
never  been  withdrawn. 

The  CHAIR  :  I  understood  it  to  have  been. 

Mr.  SWEETZER  :  The  gentleman  withdrew  his  motion.  I 
still  ask  to  have  my  motion  put. 

The  CHAIR  :  The  question  is,  shall  this  Convention  when 
it  adjourns,  adjourn  to  meet  at  5  o'clock  this  afternoon;  and 
the  amendment  is  to  9  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 

Gov.  CLEVELAND,  of  Connecticut:  I  am  sure,  gentlemen, 
that  you  are  all  disposed  to  act  as  you  look,  as  gentlemen.  I 
desire  to  say  to  you  that  we  have  a  very  polite  and  gentle- 
manly communication  from  the  Board  of  Trade,  and  we  have 
by  a  vote,  accepted  it.  Now,  I  agree  with  my  friend  from 
New  York  [Mr.  King]  that  we  had  better  not  do  it,  but  to 
get  out  of  it  arid  treat  them  fairly,  we  have  only  to  make  a 
motion  to  reconsider,  and  then  we  can  dispose  of  it  in  such  a 
manner  as  the  Convention  shall  see  fit,  and  in  such  a  manner 
as  is  consistent  with  the  gentlemanly  character  of  those  who 
made  the  invitation.  In  passing  a  motion  to  accept  it,  and 
then  voting  to  adjourn  till  5  o'clock,  we  seem  to  throw  con- 
tempt upon  their  very  civil  invitation.  If  the  gentleman 
will  wi.hdraw  his  motion  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  motion 
to  reconsider,  I  will  make  that  motion,  and  then  we  can  get 
out  of  the  trouble. 


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Mr.  SWEETZER:  I  withdraw  the  motion  only  for  that  pur- 
pose. 

The  PRESIDENT:  The  difficulty  is  here  :  If  you  withdraw 
your  motion  touching  the  hour  of  adjournment  then  comes 
before  the  Convention,  as  I  understand  it,  the  motion  to  take 
from  the  table  the  resolution  concerning  the  platform.  The 
motion  before  the  Convention  is  that  we  adjourn,  when  we 
do  adjourn,  until  to-morrow  morning  at  9  o'clock. 

Motion  to  adjourn  was  put  and  lost.  [Applause.] 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Now  the  proposition  before  the  Conven- 
tion is  that  when  this  Convention  adjourns,  it  adjourns  to 
meet  at  5  o'clock  this  afternoon. 

Hon.  JOSHUA  R.  GIDDINGS,  of  Ohio,  appeared  on  the  platform 
amid  loud  cheers.  He  said:  I  rise  for  the  purpose  of  moving  a  re- 
consideration of  the  vote  accepting  the  invitation  received  from 
the  Board  of  Trade  to  meet  there  at  5  o'clock  for  a  pleasure 
excursion  I  (Jo  this,  sir,  from  a  sincere  conviction  that  every 
gentleman  who  has  come  here,  has  come  impressed  with  the 
solemnity  of  the  business  before  us.  Knowing  that  we  are 
here  to  perform  high  and  solemn  duties  to  our  country  and 
ourselves,  and  in  justice  to  our  own  position  and  the  cause  in 
which  we  are  employed,  we  should  be  zealously  engaged  in 
the  business  before  us  ;  and  here  I  will  take  leave  to  say  we 
have  had  a  precedent  recently  set  before  us,  far  south  of  this, 
which  should  caution  us  about  spending  our  time  here  to  the 
wearying  of  the  public  mind  in  witnessing  our  discussions. 
If  we  can  close  up  our  business  to-morrow  by  two  or  three 
o'clock,  it  will  tell  upon  the  community  with  a  moral  force 
that  is  incalculable.  [Loud  and  prolonged  applause.]  Now, 
Mr.  Chairman,  I  will  lobor  from  this  time  until  three  o'clock 
to-morrow  in  order  to  attain  the  object  of  a  final  adjournment 
at  that  time.  [Renewed  cheering.]  Then,  sir,  I  am  willing 
to  accept  the  kind  invitation  of  the  Board  of  Trade  here,  and 
enjoy  the  pleasure  of  going  upon  the  proposed  excursion- 


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For  the  purpose  of  reconsidering  this  vote,  and  then  referring 
it  to  a  committee  that  they  shall  make  the  arrangements 
with  the  Board  of  Trade,  so  that  at  our  adjournment  we  will 
meet  them  and  accept  cordially  the  invitation  and  take  this 
excursion,  I  now  move  that  we  reconsider  the  vote  by  which 
that  motion  was  carried,  accepting  the  pleasure  excursion. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Giddings  to  reconsider  was  then  put  to 
vote  and  carried. 

Mr.  LOWRY,  of  Pennsylvania :  I  move  you,  sir,  that  a  com- 
mittee of  one  from  each  State  be  appointed  by  the  Chair  to 
confer  with  the  Board  of  Trade. 

VOICES  :  Make  it  a  committee  of  five. 

Mr.  LOWRY:  I  will  modify  my  resolution  and  make  it  a 
committee  of  five. 

Mr.  HOPKINS,  of  Massachusetts:  We  have  already  a  com- 
mittee of  five  appointed  upon  the  order  of  business,  and  I  sug- 
gest that  this  matter  of  the  invitation  of  the  Board  of  Trade, 
of  Chicago,  can  be  referred  to  it.  I  will  make  the  motion 
that  that  reference  be  had. 

A  delegate  from  Vermont :  I  hope  that  the  committee  will 
at  once  notify  the  Board  of  Trade,  as  they  are  already 
making  their  preparations  for  the  excursion. 

Motion  of  Mr.  Lowry  to  appoint  a  committee  of  five  to 
confer  was  adopted. 

The  CHAIR  then  appointed  the  following  gentlemen  to  act 
as  such  committee  : 

Morrow  B.  Lowry, Of  Pennsylvania. 

Aaron  Goodrich,   Of  Minnesota. 

Joshua  R.  Giddings, Of  Ohio. 

F.  P.  Blair, Of  Maryland. 

C.  F.  Cleveland, Of  Connecticut. 


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The  Convention  then,  on  motion,  adjourned  until  5  o'clock, 
P.  M. 


AFTERNOON   SESSION. 

The  Convention  was  called  to  order  at  5:15,  P.  M.,  by  the 
temporary  President. 

THE   INVITATION. 

Mr.  LOWRT,  of  Pennsylvania:  In  behalf  of  the  committee 
appointed  to  confer  with  the  Board  of  Trade,  I  would  ask 
leave  to  make  a  report.  The  committee  have  called  upon  our 
friends,  the  Board  of  Trade,  who  invited  us  to  the  excursion. 
They  extended  to  us  an  invitation  and  we  accepted  it.  They 
left  immediately  and  prepared  themselves  to  carry  out  the  ar- 
rangement that  they  had  proposed  for  our  enjoyment.  They 
have  a  perfect  fleet  down  there  now  in  readiness.  Before  I 
could  get  there — before  I  could  find  the  committee  and  the 
parties  who  have  invited  us,  they  had  their  fleet  ready  to 
carry  us  and  large  enough  to  carry  us  all.  They  say  that  if 
we  are  so  pressed  with  business  we  can  hold  the  Convention 
on  the  decks  of  their  vessels,  if  we  desire  it — and  we  can,  so 
they  say,  have  their  cabins  for  rooms  to  caucus  in.  They  are 
very  much  disposed  to  press  us  and  will  wait  one  hour,  that 
will  make  it  six  o'clock.  We  can  have  ample  time  to  do  here 
this  afternoon  all  that  is  necessary  and  then  go  on  the  excursion. 
Now,  inasmuch  as  the  people  of  Chicago  extend  to  us  this 
invitation,  I  hope  it  will  be  unanimously  accepted  for  6 
o'clock. 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio  :  I  rise  to  a  question  of  order.  There 
is  one  question  already  before  the  house. 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota:  Say  "as  soon  thereafter  as 
possible."  We  may,  perhaps,  have  to  wait  fifteen  or  twenty 
minutes  thereafter.  I  hope  that  we  shall  go  on  and  perfect 
our  organization,  and  I  believe  that  can  be  done  within  the 


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time  named.     I  hope  the  Convention  will  get  ready  at  once 
to  take  the  excursion. 

Mr.  HAZARD,  of  Rhode  Island  :  The  proposition  now  made 
as  I  understand  it,  differs  only  from  that  of  the  morning  in 
this:  it  is  now  said  that  it  will  not  interfere  with  the  pro- 
gress of  the  meeting — that  we  may  go  on  and  complete  our 
business  just  as  well  as  not,  and  take  this  excursion.  [Cries 
of  "Never  mind,"  and  much  confusion.]  But  it  does  not 
meet  the  case.  I  suppose  that  we  are  here  on  important 
business.  We  are  here,  believing  as  was  said  this  morning 
[much  confusion],  believing  that  the  government  is  pressed 
on  both  sides,  one  half  of  the  Democratic  party  threatening 
us  with  annihilation — and  the  other  [amid  loud  cries  of 
"Question,"  the  remainder  of  the  sentence  was  lost.]  Sup- 
pose you  were  standing  by  the  sick  bed.  [Cries  of  "  Ques- 
tion," and  great  confusion,  amid  which  the  speaker  took  his 
seat.] 

The  question  to  adjourn  to  6  o'clock  being  submitted,  was 
lost  amid  much  applause. 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  that  the  reports  of  the  commit- 
tees were  in  order,  and  asked  for  the  report  of  the  Committee 
on  Permanent  Organization.  [Cries  of  "  Good."] 

Mr.  HINCKLEY,  of  California  :  I  ask  if  it  is  not  in  accord- 
ance with  usage  that  the  Committee  on  Credentials  be  called, 
so  that  we  may  know  who  are  members  of  the  Convention. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  I  do  not  know  that  there  is  any  special 
order  in  which  committees  should  report. 

Mr.  KELLEY,  of  Pennsylvania  :  I  move  that  the  report  of 
the  Committee  on  Credentials  be  called,  so  that  we  may  know 
who  are  members  of  the  Convention. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Kelley  was  carried. 

Mr.  COMINS,  of  Massachusetts  stated,  that  the  Committee 


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on  Permanent  Organization  had  agreed  upon  a  report,  and 
that  its  Chairman  would  be  present  very  soon  to  present  the 
report  to  the  Convention. 

The  PRESIDENT  called  for  the  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  if  the  Chairman  was  present. 

Judge  TRACY,  of  California  :  I  understand  that  the  Com- 
mittee on  the  Order  of  Business  are  ready  to  report  in  part; 
and  inasmuch  as  no  other  committee  seems  to  be  ready  to 
report,  I  propose  that  the  Chair  call  for  the  report  of  that 
committee. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  I  think  that  if  the  Committee  on  Perma- 
nent Organization  is  ready  to  report,  it  would  be  best  to 
receive  that. 

Judge  TRACY:  Certainly,  if  they  are  in  a  state  of  crystalli- 
zation. [Laughter.] 

The  PRESIDENT:  I  understand  that  they  are  ready.  Mr. 
Horton,  of  the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization,  makes 
a  report  in  part  that  they  havu  agreed  upon  Mr.  Ashmun,  of 
Massachusetts. 

A  VOICE  :  George  ? 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Hon.  George  Ashmun  [a  voice,  "  Good 
boy" — Laughter],  of  Massachusetts,  for  President  of  the 
Convention.  [Prolonged  cheers.] 

The  report  in  reference  to  the  selection  of  Permanent  Pre- 
sident was  unanimously  adopted. 

A  VOICE  :  Nary  a  "  no."  [Laughter.] 

The  Temporary  President  appointed  Hon.  Preston  King, 
of  New  York,  and  Carl  Schurz,  of  Wisconsin,  to  wait  upon 
and  conduct  the  President  to  the  chair.  The  appearance  of 
Mr.  Schurz  was  the  signal  for  loud  cheers. 

The  President  was  conducted   to  the  chair  amid  enthusi- 


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astic  applause.     When  this  had  subsided   he  addressed   the 
Convention. 

SPEECH  OF  HON.   GEORGE  ASHMUN. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention — Republicans,  Americans : 
My  first  duty  is  to  express  to  you  the  deep  sense  which  I  feel 
of  this  distinguished  mark  of  your  confidence.  In  the  spirit 
in  which  it  has  been  offered  I  accept  it,  sensible  of  the  diffi- 
culties which  surround  the  position,  but  cheered  and  sus- 
tained by  the  faith  that  the  same  generosity  that  has  brought 
me  here  will  carry  me  through  the  discharge  of  the  duties. 
I  will  not  shrink  from  this  position,  at  the  same  time  the 
post  of  danger  as  well  as  the  post  of  honor.  [Applause.] 
Gentlemen,  we  have  come  here  to-day  at  the  call  of  our 
countrymen  from  widely  separated  homes,  to  fulfill  a  great 
and  important  duty.  No  ordinary  call  has  brought  us  to- 
gether. Nothing  but  a  momentous  question  would  have 
called  this  vast  multitude  here  to-day — nothing  but  a  deep 
sense  of  the  danger  into  which  our  government  is  fast  running 
could  have  rallied  the  people  thus  in  this  city  to-day,  for  the 
purpose  of  rescuing  the  government  from  the  deep  degrada- 
tio'n  into  which  it  has  fallen.  [Loud  applause.]  We  have 
come  here  at  the  call  of  our  country,  for  the  purpose  of  pre- 
paring for  the  most  solemn  duty  that  freemen  have  to  per- 
form. We  are  here  in  the  ordinary  capacity  as  delegates  of 
the  people,  to  prepare  for  the  formation  and  carrying  on  of  a 
new  administration,  and  with  the  help  of  the  people  we  will 
do  it.  [Applause.]  No  mere  controversy  about  miserable 
abstractions  has  brought  us  here  to-day ;  we  have  not  come 
here  on  any  idle  question.  The  sacrifice  which  most  of  us 
have  made  in  the  extended  journey,  and  in  the  time  devoted 
to  it,  could  only  have  been  made  upon  some  solemn  call;  and 
the  stern  look  which  I  see,  the  solemn  look  which  I  see  on 
every  face,  and  the  earnest  behavior  which  has  been  mani- 
fested in  all  the  preliminary  discussions,  shows  full  well  that 
we  all  have  a  true  and  deep  sense  of  the  solemn  obligation 
which  is  resting  upon  us.  Gentlemen,  it  does  not  belong  to 


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me  to  make  an  extended  address ;  it  is  for  me  rather  to  assist 
in  the  details  of  the  business  that  belong  to  the  Convention. 
But  allow  me  to  say  that  I  think  we  have  a  right  here  to-day, 
in  the  name  of  the  American  people,  to  say  that  we  impeach 
the  administration  of  our  General  Government  of  the  highest 
crimes  which  can  be  committed  against  a  constitutional  govern- 
ment, against  a  free  people,  against  humanity.  [Prolonged 
cheers.]  The  catalogue  of  its  crimes  it  is  not  for  me  to 
recite.  It  is  written  upon  every  page  of  the  history  of  the 
present  administration,  and  I  care  not  how  many  paper  pro- 
tests the  President  may  send  into  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives [Laughter  and  applause],  we,  here,  the  grand  inquest  of 
the  nation,  will  find  out  for  him  and  his  confederates,  not 
merely  punishment  terrible  and  sure,  but  a  remedy  which 
shall  be  satisfactory.  [Prolonged  cheers.]  Gentlemen,  before 
proceeding  to  the  business  of  the  Convention,  allow  me  to 
congratulate  you  and  the  people  upon  the  striking  feature 
which,  I  think,  must  have  been  noticed  by  everybody  who 
has  mixed  in  the  preliminary  discussions  of  the  people  who 
have  gathered  in  this  beautiful  city.  It  is  that  brotherly 
kindness,  and  cordial  and  generous  emulation,  which  has 
marked  every  conversation  and  every  discussion,  showing  a 
desire  for  nothing  else  but  their  country's  good.  Earnest, 
warm  and  generous  preferences  are  expressed,  ardent  hopes 
and  fond  purposes  are  declared,  but  not  within  the  three 
days  I  have  spent  among  you  all,  have  I  heard  one  unkind 
word,  uttered  by  one  man  towards  another.  I  hail  it  as  an 
augury  of  success,  and  if,  during  the  proceedings  of  this  Con- 
vention, you  will  unite  to  perpetuate  that  feeling,  and  allow 
it  to  pervade  all  your  proceedings,  I  declare  to  you,  that  I 
think  it  is  the  surest  and  brightest  promise  of  our  success, 
whoever  may  be  the  standard  bearer  in  the  contest  that  is 
pending.  [Applause.]  In  that  spirit,  gentlemen,  let  us  now 
proceed  to  the  business — to  the  great  work,  which  the  Ameri- 
can people  have  given  into  our  hands  to  do.  [Applause.] 


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THE  OFFICERS  OF  THE  CONVENTION. 

Mr.  MARSH,  of  New  Jersey :  The  Committee  on  Permanent 
Organization  having  reported  in  part,  desires  to  complete  its 
report. 

The  committee  appointed  to  recommend  officers  for  the 
permanent  organization  of  this  Convention,  have  attended  to 
that  duty,  and  report  that  the  officers  shall  consist  of  a  Pre- 
sident, twenty-seven  Vice-Presidents  and  twenty-six  Secre- 
taries; and  the  following  gentlemen  are  recommended  to  fill 
the  offices  respectively  named  : 

VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

Maine, Samuel  F.  Hersey 

New  Hampshire, William  Haile. 

Vermont, William  Hebord. 

Massachusetts, Ensign  H.  Kellogg. 

Rhode  Island, Rowland  G.  Hazard. 

Connecticut, Chauncey  F.  Cleveland. 

New  York, William  Curtis  Noyes. 

New  Jersey, Edward  Y.  Rogers. 

Pennsylvania, Thaddeus  Stevens. 

Delaware John  C.  Clark. 

Maryland, William  L.  Marshall. 

Virginia, Richard  Crawford. 

Ohio, George  D.  Burgess. 

Indiana, John  Beard. 

Illinois,    David  Davis. 

Michigan, Thomas  W.  Ferry. 

Wisconsin, Hans  Crocker. 

Iowa, H.  P.  Scholte. 

Minnesota, Aaron  Goodrich. 

Missouri, Henry  T.  Blow. 

Kentucky, William  D.  Gallagher. 

Texas, William  T.  Chandler. 

California, A.  A.  Sargent. 

Oicgon Joel  Burlingame. 

District  of  Columbia, George  Harrington. 

Kansas, NYilliam  W.  Ross. 

Nebraska, A.  S.  Paddock. 


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SECRETARIES. 

Maine, Charles  A.  Wing. 

New  Hampshire, Nathaniel  Hubbard. 

Vermont, John  W.  Stewart. 

Mauachtuett*, Charles  O.  Rogers. 

Rhode  Island, Rowland  R.  Hazard. 

Connecticut, H.  H.  Starkweather. 

New  York, George  William  Curtis. 

New  Jersey, Edward  Brettle. 

Pennsylvania, J.  Bowman  Bell. 

Delaware, Benjamin  C.  Hopkins. 

Maryland, William  E.  Coale. 

Virginia, A.  W.  Campbell. 

Ohio, H.  G.  Beebe. 

Indiana, D.  D.  Pratt. 

Illinois, 0.  L.  Davis. 

Michigan, William  S.  Stoughton. 

Wisconsin, L.  F.  Frisbie. 

Iowa, Wm.  B.  Allison. 

Minnesota, D.  A.  Secombe. 

Missouri, J.  K.  Kidd. 

Kentucky,    Stephen  J.  Hawes. 

Texas, D  unbar  Henderson. 

California, D.  J.  Staples. 

Oregon, Eli  Thayer. 

Kansas, John  A.  Martin. 

Nehmska, H.  P.  Hitchcock. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  STOXE,  of  Iowa,  the -report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Permanent  Organization  was  adopted. 

Hon.  F.  P.  TRACY,  of  California,  moved  that  a  committee, 
consisting  of  one  delegate  from  each  state  and  territory  repre- 
sented in  the  Convention,  be  selected  by  the  delegates  there- 
of, to  report  resolutions  and  platform. 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio,  moved  to  amend,  by  requiring  that 
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all  resolutions  submitted  to  the  Convention  be  referred  to  the 
proposed  committee  without  debate. 

Judge  TRACY  accepted  the  amendment. 

Mr.  JUDD,  of  Illinois  :  I  ask  the  gentleman  to  suspend  for 
one  moment  while  I  make  a  presentation  to  the  President  of 
the  Convention.  I  am  directed,  Mr.  President,  on  behalf  of 
one  of  the  working  mechanic  Republicans  of  Chicago,  to  pre- 
sent to  you,  sir,  this  emblem  of  your  authority.  [Exhibiting 
a  beautifully  wrought  oak  gavel,  finished  and  ornamented 
with  ivory  and  silver.]  It  is  not,  sir,  the. wood  and  the  ivory 
and  the  silver — 

Mr.  HINCKLEY,  of  California:  [Interrupting.]  I  rise  to  a 
point  of  order.  ["Sit  down;"  "Go  on  with  the  presenta- 
tion," and  great  confusion.]  The  Committee  on  Order  of 
Business  has  not  yet  reported  ;  when  that  committee  reports 
perhaps  the  Convention  will  find  the  adoption  or  rejection  of 
that  report  will  settle  the  controversy  in  reference  to  the  ap- 
pointment of  the  Committee  on  Platform  and  Resolutions. 

The  CHAIR:  The  chair  holds  that  that  is  not  a  point  of 

order.  [Applause.]  It  may  be  a  ground  for  the  rejection  of 

the    proposition   of  the   gentleman   from    California    (Judge 
Tracy). 

Mr.  JUDD  :  I  would  not,  sir,  have  attempted  to  have  made 
this  presentation,  if  I  had  not  supposed  that  I  had  the  unani- 
mous consent  at  this  time  of  the  Convention.  [Applause  and 
cries  of  "  Go  on,"  "  Go  on."]  I  was  saying  to  you,  sir,  that 
it  was  not  the  wood  or  the  ivory,  or  the  silver,  of  which  that 
little  instrument  is  composed,  that  renders  it  valuable.-  It 
has,  like  the  Republican  party,  a  history.  It  is  a  piece  of  oak 
taken  from  Commodore  Perry's  flag  ship — the  Lawrence. 
[Applause.]  It  is  not  from  its  size  that  its  power  is  to  be 
felt.  It  is  like  the  Republican  rule,  strong  but  not  noisy. 
[Great  enthusiasm.]  It  is  not,  that  the  Republicans  require 


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a  noisy  and  violent  government,  or  that  they  require  riotously 
to  put  down  the  sham  Democracy;  but  they  require  and 
intend  to  apply  to  them,  and  to  all  those  persons  who  seek 
disunion,  and  keep  up  a  cry  about  destroying  our  govern- 
ment, the  little  force  necessary  to  control  and  restrain  them, 
like  the  little  force  which  will  be  necessary  for  you,  Mr.  Pre- 
sident, to  use  in  presiding  over  the  deliberations  of  this 
Convention.  [Great  cheers.]  There  is  a  motto,  too,  adopted 
by  that  mechanic,  which  should  be  a  motto  for  every  Repub- 
lican in  this  Convention — the  motto  borne  upon  the  flag  of 
the  Lawrence — "Don't  give  up  the  ship."  [Great  applause.] 
Mr.  President,  in  presenting  this  to  you,  in  addition  to  the 
motto  furnished  by  the  mechanic  who  manufactured  this,  as 
an  evidence  of  his  warmth  and  zeal  in  the  Republican  cause, 
I  would  recommend  to  this  Convention  to  believe  that  the 
person  who  will  be  nominated  here,  can,  when  the  election  is 
over  in  November,  send  a  dispatch  to  Washington  in  the 
language  of  the  gallant  Perry:  ';We  have  met  the  enemy, 
and  they  are  ours."  [Terrific  cheering.]  Voices,  "Name, 
name."  Mr.  President,  in  the  beginning  I  should  have 
named  Mr.  C.  G.  Thomas,  of  Chicago.  [Hearty  applause.] 

The  PRESIDENT:  In  behalf  of  the  Convention,  I  accept 
from  the  hands  of  the  gentleman  from  Illinois  the  present 
made  by  the  Chicago  mechanic;  and  I  have  only  to  say  to- 
day that  all  the  auguries  are  that  we  shall  meet  the  enemy 
and  they  shall  be  ours.  [  Loud  cheers.  ] 

Mr.  DEMBITZ,  of  Kentucky,  announced  that  the  Committee 
on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business,  had  matured  a  partial  report, 
defining  the  manner  in  which  votes  should  be  taken  in  the 
Convention.  He  moved  that  that  report  be  now  taken  up. 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  that  the  question  on  the  ap- 
pointment of  a  Committee  on  Resolutions  and  Platform  was 
pending. 

Mr.  DEMBITZ  moved  that  the  question  on  the  appointment 


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of  a  Committee  on  Platform  and  Resolutions  be  postponed 
until  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of 
Business  had  been  received. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Dembitz  was  lost. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  question  is  now  on  the  appointment 
of  a  Committee  on  Resolutions  and  Platform,  to  whom  to  re- 
fer, without  debate,  all  resolutions  or  propositions. 

Gov.  REEDER  :  Mr.  President — 
VOICES:   "Name." 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Gov.  Reeder,  of  Pennsylvania.  [Prolong- 
ed cheers.  ] 

Gov.  REEDER  :  I  understand  the  resolution  before  the  Con- 
vention to  be  that  a  committee  of  one  from  each  state  be  ap- 
pointed for  the  purpose  of  drafting  a  Platform  and  Resolutions. 
Am  I  right? 

The  PRESIDENT:  You  are,  substantially. 

Gov.  REEDER  :  Then  I  move  to  amend  so  that  it  may  in- 
clude the  territories. 

Judge  TRACT  :  That  is  the  language  of  the  motion. 
The  motion  to  appoint  a  Committee  on  Platform  and  Reso- 
lutions was  then  carried. 

The  PRESIDENT  suggested  to  the  Convention  the  propriety 
of  having  a  roll  of  the  Convention,  arranged  under  the  heads 
of  the  different  states,  made  out  by  the  Secretaries,  and  to  be 
printed  for  the  use  of  the  Convention.  He  then  proposed  to 
call  the  states  for  the  appointment  of  a  Committee  on  Reso- 
lutions and  Platform. 

Mr.  JAMES,  of  New  York :  Before  that  is  put,  I  would  sug- 
gest that  the  Committee  on  Credentials  report.  We  refused 
to  adopt  this  very  resolution  before  dinner. 


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The  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  is  about  to  call  the  roll  of  the  states, 
for  the  purpose  of  receiving  the  names  of  gentlemen  to  con- 
stitute a  Committee  on  Resolutions. 

COMMITTEE  ON  RESOLUTIONS,  &c. 

The  roll  was  then  called,  and  the  committee  constituted  as 
follows: 

Maine, George  F.  Talbott. 

New  Hampshire, Amos  Tuck. 

Vermont, Ebenezer  Briggs. 

Massachusetts, George  S.  Boutwell. 

Rhode  Island, Benjamin  T.  Eames. 

Connecticut, S.  W.  Kellogg. 

New  York, H.  R.  Selden. 

New  Jersey, Thomas  H.  Dudley. 

Pennsylvania, William  Jessup. 

Delaware, N.  B.  Smithers. 

Maryland, F.P.Blair. 

Virginia, Alfred  Caldwell. 

Ohio, Joseph  H.  Barrett. 

Kentucky, George  D.  Blakey. 

Indiana, William  T.  Otto. 

Michigan, Austin  Blair. 

Illinois, Gustavus  Kaerner. 

Wisconsin, Carl  Schurz. 

Minnesota, Stephen  Miller. 

Iowa, J.  A.  Kasson. 

Missouri, Charles  L.  Bernays. 

California, F.  P.  Tracy. 

Oregon, Horace  Greeley. 

Texan, H.  A.  Shaw. 

District  of  Columbia, G.  A.  Hall. 

Nebraska, A.  Sidney  Paddock. 

Kansas, John  P.  Hatterscheidt. 

Mr.  R.  H.  CORWINE,  of  Ohio:  The  Committee  on  Business 
have  a  report  prepared,  but  it  will  be  necessary  for  them  to 


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modify  their  report  in  consequence  of  the  action  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials. 

Mr.  HOPKINS,  of  Massachusetts  :  In  response  to  the  sugges- 
tion from  the  Chair,  I  move  you  that  the  Secretaries  of  this 
Convention  be  directed  to  prepare  a  full  list  of  the  delegates 
to  this  Convention. 

A  DELEGATE  FROM  MISSOURI  :  I  would  move,  as  an  amend- 
ment, that  it  contain  their  post  office  addresses. 

The  CHAIR  :  That,  I  suppose,  will  be  attended  to.     It  will 
be  done  under  the  direction  of  the  Secretaries. 
Motion  to  print  adopted. 

The  PRESIDENT  then  announced  the  reception  of  the  follow- 
ing communication,  which  was  read  to  the  Convention  : 

ARMORY  OF  THE  ZOUAVE  CADET  GUARD,  ) 
May  16,  1860.  J 

To  THE  HONORABLE  MEMBERS  OF  THE  NATIONAL  REPUBLICAN 

CONVENTION. 

Gentlemen :  In  compliance  with  the  wishes  of  the  citizens, 
we  are,  through  the  courtesy  of  the  Committee,  permitted  to 
occupy  the  "  Wigwam"  this  evening  for  an  exhibition  drill, 
to  which  we  beg  to  return  an  invitation  to  the  members  of 
your  honorable  body.  We  shall  feel  highly  honored  by  the 
presence  of  all  who  can  find  leisure  to  attend.  Tickets  of  ad- 
mission will  be  found  at  the  head-quarters  of  the  different  de- 
legations. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be, 

Your  obed't  servant, 

E.  E.  ELLSWORTH, 

Cummandcr  U.  S.  Zouave  Cadets. 

On  motion,  the  invitation  to  be  present  was  accepted  with 
thanks. 

Mr.  KAUFMANN.  of  Pennsylvania :    I  would  suggest  to  the 


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Committee  on  Platform,  before  they  present  to  the  Conven- 
tion their  report,  that  they  have  a  large  number  printed  and 
distributed  to  all  members,  so  that  they  can  see  it.  It  will 
be  impossible  to  have  it  read  here  so  that  we  can  understand 
it  clearly,  and  members  will  not  know  if  they  are  in  favor  of 
it  or  against  it.  I  will  make  a  motion  to  that  effect. 
The  motion  was  carried. 

Mr.  VOORHIES,  of  Indiana :  I  move  that  when  this  Conven- 
tion adjourns,  it  do  adjourn  until  to-morrow  morning  at  9 
o'clock. 

MANY  VOICES — '•  Make  it  ten." 

The  CHAIR  :  It  is  moved  to  amend  by  substituting  10. 

Mr.  TRACY,  of  California :  Nine  o'clock  is  too  early.  I 
have  come  a  long  way,  many  thousand  miles,  to  attend  this 
Convention,  and  am  tired,  and  I  can't  get  up  so  early. 

Mr.  KELLEY,  of  Pennsylvania:  There  are  several  commit- 
tees who  have  business  to  attend  to ;  one  of  which  I  know 
meets  at'  eight,  and  another  at  half  past  eight,  and  it  will  be 
impossible  for  them  to  get  through  their  business  by  nine 
o'clock.  In  endeavoring  to  save  an  hour,  I  think  the  Conven- 
tion will  waste  much  more  time.  I  think  that  it  would  be 
more  judicious  to  meet  at  10  o'clock,  when  the  committees 
can  come  in  with  their  reports. 

The  motion  to  fix  10  o'clock  as  the  hour  for  re-assembling 
prevailed. 

Mr.  ROLLINS,  of  New  Hampshire,  offered  the  following 
resolution  : 

Resolved,  That  the  delegations  from  each  state  and  terri- 
tory, represented  in  this  Convention,  be  requested  to  designate 
and  report  the  name  of  one  individual  to  serve  as  a  member 
of  the  National  Republican  Committee,  for  the  ensuing  four 
years. 


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Mr.  NOURSE,  of  Iowa,  moved  to  amend  the  resolution  so 
that  the  delegations  should  be  left  to  select  members  of  the 
National  Committee  who  were  not  members  of  the  Conven- 
tion. 

The  amendment  was  accepted,  and  the  resolution  adopted. 

The  Convention  then,  on  motion,  adjourned  to  Thursday 
morning,  at  10  o'clock. 


SECOND  DAY. 

The  Convention  re-assembled  at  10  o'clock,  pursuant  to 
adjournment.  After  some  time  spent  in  securing  to  dele- 
gates the  possession  of  their  seats  on  the  platform,  many  of 
which  had  been  taken  by  persons  not  delegates,  Rev.  W.  W. 
PATTEN,  Pastor  of  the  Second  Congregational  Church,  of  Chi- 
cago, offered  the  following  prayer  : 

Great  God  !  Thou  art  the  blessed  and  the  only  potentate, 
King  of  Kings  and  Lord  of  Lords.  Thou  only  hast  immor- 
tality. Thou  dwellest  in  light  that  no  man  can  approach  unto 
Thee,  whom  no  man  hath  seen  nor  mortal  vision  can  see.  We 
are  Thy  weak  and  Thine  erring  creatures,  and  we  draw  nigh 
unto  Thee  in  all  our  dependence,  that  we  may  avail  ourselves 
of  Thine  almighty  strength  and  boundless  wisdom.  We  thank 
Thee  that  Thou  hast  given  us  the  great  boon  of  existence; 
that  Thou  hast  created  us  in  Thine  own  image ;  that  Thou 
hast  sent  us  into  this  world  to  work  out  our  destiny  and  to  do 
Thy  will ;  privileging  us  with  the  opportunity  of  being  co- 
workers  with  Thee  in  Thy  benevolent  and  wise  plans.  We 
thank  Thee  that  we  had  our  birth  and  residence  in  this  land ; 
and  that  we  have  come  into  the  world  to  act  our  part  in  these 
latter  days  of  its  history.  We  pray  Thee  to  qualify  us  to  act 
that  part  aright,  as  men  should  act  who  live  in  this  nineteenth 


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century.  And  we  pray  Thre,  oh  God,  that  Thy  blessing  may 
rest  upon  our  country.  "We  thank  Thee  that  our  fathers 
who  came  over  here,  and  laid  the  foundations  of  our  country 
in  prayer  and  in  faith,  desiring  here  to  serve  God  and  benefit 
their  ft  How  men.  And  we  pray  Thee  that  that  same  spirit 
may  dwell  in  their  children;  and  may  lead  them  to  bring 
forth  the  fruits  of  righteousness.  Help  this  great  people  to 
remember  that  it  is  righteousness  that  exalteth  a  nation,  while 
sin  is  a  shame  unto  any  people.  We  thank  Thee  that  Thou 
hast  permitted  us  to  witness  this  great  convocation  of  the 
friends  of  freedom  and  humanity.  We  pray  for  Thy  blessing 
to  rest  upon  all  in  this  Convemion  who  have  come  hither  to 
represent  the  friends  of  freedom  in  this  nation.  We  beseech 
of  Thee  that  Thou  w7ilt  give  them  the  wisdom  which  is  from 
above,  which  begins  in  the  fear  of  God.  Grant  that  they 
may  be  saved  from  the  fear  of  man,  which  Thy  word  declares 
bringeth  a  snare ;  and  we  pray  Thee  that  they  may  be  enabled 
to  act  in  manner  worthy  of  the  responsibility  which  has  been 
committed  to  them.  Grant  that  in  their  deliberations  they 
may  be  aided  by  the  spirit,  and  may  be  brought  to  such  con- 
clusions as  shall  be  for  the  furtherance  of  the  cause  of  liberty 
and  of  humanity  in  this  great  nation,  so  that  they  shall  not 
only  acquit  themselves  to  the  commendation  of  their  fellow 
men.  but  shall  be  prepared  to  meet  God,  and  that  slave,  whose 
friend  God  is,  at  the  great  day  of  account.  And  these  mercies 
we  ask  in  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ.  Amen  ! 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  the  reception  of  the  following 
communication,  which  was  read  to  the  Convention : 

CHICAGO,  May  17,  1SGO. 

Hon.  GEORGE  ASHMUN,  President  of  the  Republican  Convention,  Chicago. 

Dear  Sir :  The  members  of  the  Convention  are  invited  to 
an  excursion  over  the  Chicago  and  Rock  Island  railroad,  to 
the  City  of  Rock  Island,  crossing  the  Mississippi  river  bridge 
to  the  City  of  Davenport,  Iowa,  any  day  during  their  stay  in 
Chicago  which  the  Convention  may  designate.  The  hour  of 


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leaving  Chicago  and  returning  subject  to  the  wishes  of  the 
Convention. 

I  am  respectfully  yours, 

HENRY  FARNUM,  President. 

On  motion  the  communication  was  laid  on  the  table,  to  be 
taken  up  and  considered  at  a  later  stage  of  the  proceedings. 

The  CHAIR  announced  the  reception  of  the  following  com- 
munication, which  he  read  to  the  Convention  : 

To  the  Honorable  PRESIDENT  of  the  Republican  National  Convention. 

Sir :  Can  you  arrange  to  send  out  some  effective  speakers, 
to  entertain  20,000  Republicans  and  their  wives,  outside  the 
building?  [Great  applause,  and  cries  for  "  Corwin,"  and 
others.] 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  that  the  first  business  in  order 
would  be  to  hear  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Order 
of  Business. 

Mr.  R.  H.  CORWINE,  of  Ohio,  chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Rules  and  the  Order  of  Business,  reported  the  following 
rules,  which  were  read  to  the  Convention  : 

Rule  I.  Upon  all  subjects  before  the  Convention,  the  states 
and  territories  shall  be  called  in  the  following  order: 

Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Massachusetts,  Rhode 
Island,  Connecticut,  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania, 
Maryland,  Delaware,  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Ohio,  Indiana,  Mis- 
souri, Michigan,  Illinois,  Texas,  Wisconsin,  Iowa,  California, 
Minnesota,  Oregon,  Kansas,  Nebraska,  District  of  Columbia. 

Rule  2.  Four  votes  shall  be  cast  by  the  delegates  at  large 
of  each  state,  and  each  Congressional  district  shall  be  entitled 
to  two  votes.  The  votes  of  each  delegation  shall  be  reported 
by  its  chairman. 

Rule  3.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Platform  and  Re- 
solutions shall  be  acted  upon  before  the  Convention  proceeds 


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to  ballot   for   candidates  for  President   and   Vice-President. 
[Applause.] 

Rule  4.  Three  hundred  and  four  votes,  being  a  majority  of 
the  whole  number  of  votes  when  all  the  states  of  the  Union 
are  represented  in  this  Convention,  according  to  the  rates  of 
representation  presented  in  Rule  2,  shall  be  required  to  nomi- 
nate the  candidates  of  this  Convention  for  the  offices  of  Presi- 
dent and  Vice-President.  [  Applause  and  cries  of  "  No !  no !"  ] 

Rule  5.  The  rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives  shall 
continue  to  be  the  rules  of  this  Convention,  in  so  far  as  they 
are  applicable  and  not  inconsistent  with  the  foregoing  rules. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

Mr.  JAMES,  of  New  York :  Before  we  proceed  to  act  on 
those  rules,  I  wish  to  say,  that  when  this  committee  met  there 
were  but  seventeen  out  of  twenty-three  members  present. 
That  the  Fourth  Rule,  which  has  been  adopted,  was  only 
adopted  by  one  majority,  and  as  a  member  of  that  committee 
I  propose  to  offer  a  substitute,  which  I  will  now  read,  as  fol- 
lows: 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Will  the  gentleman  waive  it  until  the 
Fourth  Rule  comes  before  the  meeting? 

Mr.  JAMES:  I  suppose  the  amendment  should  be  submitted 
before  we  enter  upon  the  duty  of  considering  the  report. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  It  will  be  much  more  convenient  for  the 
gentleman  to  present  his  amendment  when  it  comes  up. 

Mr.  JAMES  :  It  is  a  minority  report. 
The  PRESIDENT  :  Then  it  is  in  order. 

Mr.  JAMES:  The  minority  of  the  Committee  on  Business 
and  Rules,  propose  the  following  amendment  to  the  Fourth 
Rule,  as  a  minority  report: 

4.  That  a  majority  of  the  whole  number  of  votes  repre- 


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sented  in  this  Convention,  according  to  the  votes  prescribed 
by  the  Second  Rule,  shall  be  required  to  nominate  a  candidate 
for  President  and  Vice-President.  [Applause,  and  cries  of  "No  ! 
No  i "] 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  first  question  is  upon  the  first  rule. 

Mr.  REEDER,  of  Pennsylvania :  I  desire  to  ask  this  House  a 
question. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Mr.  Carter,  of  Ohio,  has  the  floor. 

Mr.  REEDER  :  I  beg  the  gentleman's  pardon ;  I  had  not 
seen  him. 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio:  We  are  approaching  a  labor  that  is 
going  to  involve  our  constituencies  in  this  Convention,  and 
there  is  no  report  from  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  [Voices: 
"We  can't  hear  you."]  Before  entering  upon  the  considera- 
tion of  this  report,  which  I  perceive  is  to  be  litigated,  I  pro- 
pose to  go  into  the  battle  with  the  army  organized.  [Voices: 
"  That's  correct,"  "  Good,"  and  so  on.]  Therefore,  I  move 
the  postponement  of  the  consideration  of  the  report  of  the 
Committee  on  the  Order  of  Business,  until  we  have  a  report 
from  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

Mr.  REEDER  :  That  is  precisely  the  suggestion  I  was  going 
to  make. 

Mr.  CARTER:  I  knew  you  were  thinking  just  about  right. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Carter,  to  postpone  the- consideration  of 
the  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Order  of  Business,  was 
carried. 

Mr.  BENTON,  of  New  Hampshire,  and  the  Chairman  of  the 
Committee,  on  Credentials,  ask  leave  to  submit  the  following 
report : 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  report  herewith  the  names 
and  number  of  delegates  from  the  several  states  as  being 
elected,  and  deem  it  proper  to  say  that  the  States  of  Pennsyl- 


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vania  and  New  Jersey  have  appointed  four  delegates  from 
each  Congressional  District,  and  eight  Senatorial  delegates, 
instead  of  appointing  delegates  and  alternates  ;  and  Iowa  has 
appointed  eight  delegates  from  each  Congressional  District, 
and  sixteen  Senatorial  delegates.  [Laughter.]  The  Commit- 
tee also  present  the  names  of  the  delegates  present  and  duly 
elected  from  the  District  of  Columbia  and  the  Territories  of 
Kansas  and  Nebraska,  leaving  it  for  the  Convention  to  decide 
whether  they  shall  be  permitted  to  vote  in  this  Convention. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  presented  in  behalf  of  the  Com- 
mittee. 

Mr.  BEXTOX  :  The  states  and  territories  are  specified,  and  I 
can  read  them  if  the  Convention  desire  it,  although  the  chair- 
man did  not  deem  it  necessary,  as  they  are  in  the  specifica- 
tion accompanying,  the  report. 

Gov.  REEDER:  I  desire  to  know  if  this  committee  has  re- 
ported what  states  are  represented  and  entitled  to  a  vote  in 
this  Convention.  Have  they  so  reported  ? 

Mr.  BENTON  :  They  have  so  reported. 

Mr.  DAVIS,  of  Massachusetts:  I  desire  to  have  that  portion 
of  the  report  read,  stating  which  states  are  represented  and 
entitled  to  a  vote  in  this  Convention,  with  the  number  of 
votes  to  each. 

Mr.  BEXTOX  :  In  accordance  with  the  suggestion,  I  will  read : 

Maine, 16 

New  Hampshire, 10 

Vermont, 10 

Massachusetts, 26 

Rhode  Island, 8 

Connecticut, 12 

New  York, 70 

New  Jersey, 28 

Pennsylvania, 54 


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Maryland, , 10 

Delaware, 6 

Virginia, 20 

Kentucky, 24 

Ohio, 46 

Indiana, 26 

Missouri, 18 

Michigan, 12 

Illinois 22 

Texas, S 

Wisconsin, 10 

Iowa, 8 

California, 8 

Minnesota, 8 

Oregon, 5 

Kansas, •. 6 

Nebraska, 6 

District  of  Columbia, 4 

Hon.  TIMOTHY  DAVIS,  of  Massachusetts,  moved  that  so 
much  of  the  report  as  related  to  the  delegation  from  Texas  be 
referred  back  to  the  committee. 

Mr.  WILMOT,  of  Pennsylvania :  I  move  to  amend  the  mo- 
tion of  the  gentleman  from  Massachusetts,  so  as  to  include 
the  States  of  Maryland,  Kentucky  and  Virginia.  I  had  fore- 
seen, before  I  came  to  this  Convention,  that  the  question 
would  very  properly  arise  as  to  the  propriety  of  admitting 
those  states  to  a  full  vote  in  this  Convention.  We  are  a  Con- 
vention of  delegates  representing  a  party  having  constituen- 
cies at  home.  This  is  not  a  mass  convention,  in  which  each 
man's  voice  is  to  be  heard,  and  in  which  a  mere  numerical 
majority  of  all  who  choose  to  attend  controls  the  result,  but 
this  is  a  Convention  of  delegates  representing  a  constituency, 
and  having  constituents  at  home  to  represent.  [Great  ap- 
plause.] Now,  sir,  caw  it  be  possible  that  those  gentlemen 
who  come  here  from  states  in  which  they  cannot  maintain  an 


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^rganized  party — is  it  possible  that  they  are  to  come  here 
and  by  a  full  vote  control  the  action  of  the  Convention?  I 
can  see  nothing  better  calculated  to  demoralize  a  party,  and 
to  break  it  up,  than  just  such  a  proceeding.  Why,  sir,  this 
nomination  is  to  be  the  nomination  of  the  Eepublican  party 
in  the  Union,  not  the  nomination  of  respectable  gentlemen 
who  may  belong  to  the  Republican  party  in  Virginia,  Mary- 
land or  Kentucky.  What  are  the  facts  in  Maryland?  In 
Maryland,  thirty  gentlemen  assembled  in  Baltimore  for  the 
purpose  of  sending  a  delegation  to  this  Convention.  Did  they 
assemble  as  the  representatives  of  a  party?  Not  at  all. 
They  have  never  had  a  Republican  party  in  Maryland,  and, 
in  my  judgment,  there  will  be  no  such  party  there  until  the 
people  of  the  free  states  shall  place  this  government  in  differ- 
ent hands,  and  relieve  them  from  the  tyranny  which  now 
weighs  them  down.  There  are  respectable  gentlemen  in 
Maryland,  many  of  them  who  sympathize  with  us  and  our 
cause ;  and  so  there  are  in  every  Southern  State ;  but  they 
have  not  the  power  to  maintain  a  party  organization.  These 
gentlemen  are  not  here  as  the  representatives  of  any  organized 
party  at  all.  If  this  thing  is  to  be  done,  the  result  of  the  de- 
liberations of  this  Convention,  respecting  its  nominee,  may  be 
anything  other  than  such  a  result  as  would  be  produced  by 
the  voices  of  those  only  who  are  properly  represented  upon 
this  floor.  Admit  this  precedent,  sir,  and  hereafter  some  can- 
didate, or  rather  the  friends  of  the  candidate,  may,  in  their 
anxiety  to  procure  a  result  favorable  to  their  wishes,  at  the 
next  Convention  we  shall  have,  carrying  this  thing  still  fur- 
ther, delegates  not  representing  any  party  —  but  there  will  be 
gentlemen,  excellent  gentlemen,  no  doubt,  coming  in  here 
from  every  state  of  the  Union,  brought  here  by  influences 
from  the  North,  but  not  sent  here  by  a  party  at  home.  That 
will  be  the  result.  [Applause.]  Sir,  they  may  possibly  come 
here  in  this  manner,  in  a  situation  of  this  kind.  I  cast  no  im- 
putation upon  the  gentlemen  who  come  here  to  this  Conven- 
tion. I  have  full  confidence  in  their  integrity  and  in  the 
earnestness  and  zeal  with  which  they  are  enlisted  in  the  cause; 


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but,  sir,  in  another  Convention  that  may  assemble  here,  gen- 
tlemen may  come  from  South  Carolina,  from  Alabama,  from 
Arkansas,  and  from  Mississippi,  for  the  express  purpose  of 
controlling,  demoralizing  and  breaking  up  the  Republican 
party.  [Loud  cheering.]  Now,  sir,  if  this  is  not  stopped, 
there  is  no  help  for  us.  The  true  policy  of  the  Republican 
party  is  to  allow  all  its  members  a  voice,  but  in  proportion  to 
their  numbers.  The  committee  have  retorted  here  that  three 
hundred  and  four  votes  shall  be  necessary  to  a  choice  —  a  ma- 
jority of  the  votes  of  all  the  states,  when  a  large  portion  of 
those  states  are  not  represented  here.  Why  have  they  done 
.that?  Why  have  they  broken  down  the  plain  old  Republican 
rule,  that  the  majority  —  the  real  majority  —  shall  control? 
Because  they  know  it  is  necessary  for  the  accomplishment  of 
some  object.  That  rule,  if  adopted,  would  establish  one  pre- 
cedent in  the  admission  of  men  here  to  vote  who  are  not 
representatives  of  a  party ;  and  then  they  adopt  another  mis- 
chievous rule  for  the  purpose  of  rectifying  the  first.  What 
we  want  is,  that  the  representatives  of  the  Republican  party 
here  should  vote  for  a  candidate  for  President,  and  that  the 
majority  should  control.  [Tremendous  cheering.]  That  is 
what  we  desire.  The  rule  that  is  proposed,  would  introduce 
upon  us  thirty  or  forty  votes  that  do  not  represent  any  party 
whatever.  They  are  gentlemen  of  character,  gentlemen  of 
worth,  gentlemen  who  sympathize  in  this  movement  heartily ; 
but  they  represent  no  organized  party — they  have  no  consti- 
tuency at  home.  You  admit  them  here,  and  then  to  avoid 
the  consequences  of  your  first  wrongful  act,  you  require  three 
hundred  and  four  votes  for  the  nomination  of  a  candidate.  I, 
therefore,  move  that  this  question  respecting  Texas,  embraced 
in  the  first  motion,  embrace,  also,  Maryland,  Virginia,  Ken- 
tucky, the  territories  of  Nebraska  and  Kansas,  and  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  and  all  be  referred  back  to  this  committee. 

Mr.  EWING,  of  Pennsylvania :  I  deprecate  the  sentiment 
of  my  friend  from  Pennsylvania.  [Voice — "That's  the  talk." 
Applause.]  We  all  come  here  as  Republicans,  and  those  men 


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who  came  here  from  the  slave  states  named  deserve  tenfold 
more  credit  than  those  who  come  here  from  the  free  states. 
Why,  sir,  disfranchise  our  friends  from  Virginia,  a  border 
state  —  a  free  state  so  far  as  concerns  Western  Virginia  —  my 
neighbors!  Sir,  shall  they  be  disfranchised  in  this  Conven- 
tion of  Republicans,  [voices  —  "No,  no!"]  by  Pennsylvania, 
Xew  York  or  New  England,  because  they  have  the  courage 
to  stand  up  in  a  slave  state  for  Republicanism  and  for  free 
thought?  [Applause]  While,  sir,  we  may  not  be  willing 
to  give  those  states  the  full  power  of  the  whole  delegation  of 
the  whole  state,  yet  in  the  name  of  God  shall  they  not  repre- 
sent their  immediate  districts?  It  cannot  be  that  a  Conven- 
tion of  Republicans,  assembled  here  from  the  whole  United 
States,  will  ever  adopt  such  a  doctrine  as  to  disfranchise  our 
friends  that  come  from  the  Southern  States.  Why,  sir,  I  was 
mortified  at  such  a  sentiment  coming  from  my  distinguished 
friend  from  Pennsylvania,  that  these  gentlemen  who  have 
come  here  in  defiance  of  the  sentiment  which  prevails  in  their 
own  states ;  have  come  here  as  bold  and  independent  Repub- 
licans, and  who  are  as  good  Republicans  at  home  as  here, 
should  be  voted  out.  They  are  representatives  of  the  party 
so  far  as  there  is  a  party  in  those  states,  and  we  wish  to  build 
up  the  party  in  these  states.  I  hope  that  ihis  Convention  never 
will  adopt  the  principle  to  exclude  these  gentlemen  who 
come  here  from  the  Southern  States,  because  we  may  yet 
take  a  candidate  from  one  of  those  Southern  States.  I  know 
not  what  may  be  the  result. 

Mr.  ARMOUR,  of  Maryland  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  stand  before 
this  Convention  and  this  assembled  host  of  freemen  a  repre- 
sentative from  the  State  of  Maryland.  [Applause  and  three 
cheers  for  Maryland.]  I  claim  to  be  as  true  a  Republican  as 
the  distinguished  member  of  the  "People's"  party  from 
Pennsylvania.  [Laughter  and  much  applause.]  I  have  dared 
more  than  he  has  ever  dared.  [Applause.]  I  have  periled 
more  than  he  has  ever  periled.  He  lives  in  a  free  state  ;  he 
breathes  the  pure  air  of  the  gallant  old  Keystone  State,  and 
7 


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yet  they  have  not  arrived  at  a  condition  in  which  they  are 
willing  to  avow  themselves  Republicans.  [Great  applause.] 
I  faced  the  mob  in  Baltimore  ;  I  faced  the  mob  urged  on  by 
the  aristocracy  of  the  custom  house,  menial  hirelings  of  this 
corrupt  administration.  I  went  to  my  home  and  found  that 
I  had  been  burned  in  effigy  and  suspended  by  the  neck  be- 
cause I  dared  to  avow  myself  the  friend  of  freedom.  We 
met  in  Baltimore  in  obedience  to  the  call  of  the  National 
Committee.  We  have  a  party  in  Maryland,  and  we  can  poll 
from  three  to  four  thousand  votes,  [a  voice,  "good  for  you," 
and  applause,]  and  if  ever  we  expect  Republican  principles 
to  prevail  all  over  this  land,  we  must  organize,  and  you  who 
live  in  the  northern  states  must  fraternize  with  us,  and  not 
despise  the  day  of  small  things.  [Applause.]  There  is  the 
coat  of  arms  of  my  grand  little  commonwealth,  "  CRESCITE  ET 
MULTIPLICAMINI,"  and  that  shall  be  the  motto  of  the  Repub- 
licans of  Maryland.  We  will  grow,  and  we  will  increase, 
until  Massachusetts,  Pennsylvania,  and  all  the  states  of  the 
northwest  will  welcome  our  gallant  little  commonwealth  to 
the  band  of  states  which  have  ever  been  unshrinking  in  their 
devotion  and  their  loyalty  to  the  cause  of  human  freedom.  I 
scorn  the  idea.  I  am  proud  to  despise  the  sentiment  which 
says  that  northern  influences  have  been  brought  to  bear  upon 
us.  We  are  unpurchased  and  unpurchaseable.  [Loud  ap- 
plause.] And  we  tell  Pennsylvania  to  put  that  in  her  pipe  and 
smoke  it.  [Laughter  and  applause.]  Exclude  us  from  the 
Convention  if  you  will — turn  us  out  of  these  doors  ;  [cries  of 
"  No,"  and  "  we  won't,"]  we  will  go  home,  notwithstanding, 
and  nominate  an  electoral  ticket,  and  under  the  blessing  of 
Heaven  we  will  do  all  that  we  can  do  to  advance  the  common 
cause  of  humanity.  I  beg  not  for  northern  votes  to  sustain 
us  here.  I  am  sure  there  will  be  a  spontaneous  outburst  of 
the  free  sentiments  and  the  true  sympathy  of  the  people  here. 
And  if  this  Convention  attempts  to  exclude  us,  that  large 
assemblage  of  people  will  frown  it  down.  [Applause.]  I 
have  vindicated  myself.  I  have  vindicated  my  co-delegates. 


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I  have  vindicated  my  state.     Your  applause  assures  me  of 
the  fact,  and  I  will  give  way.     [Three  cheers  for  Maryland.] 

Mr.  JAMES  WrsE,  of  District  of  Columbia :  Mr.  President, 
I  come  from  the  capital  of  this  great  and  mighty  republic, 
and  like  my  friend,  I  am  descended  from  old  Maryland.  [Ap- 
plause.] I  stand  in  this  mighty  Convention  congregated  in 
the  queen  city  of  the  great  west,  the  representative  from  the 
District  of  Columbia,  of  the  great  Republican  party.  [Loud 
cheers.]  I  stand  here  the  representative  of  the  persecuted  and 
down-trodden  and  disfranchised  people  that  have  no  vote  for 
President,  no  voice  in  Congress,  and  no  voice  anywhere  to 
legislate  for  us,  and  yet  our  territory  contains  a  hundred  thou- 
sand freemen.  I  came  to  this  city  as  a  representative  of  the 
Republican  party  for  no  sinister  purpose,  but  for  the  people 
of  that  disfranchised  district.  We  claim  from  the  people  of 
this  country  the  right  of  franchise ;  we  claim  the  right  of 
citizenship  ;  we  claim  to  be  heard  in  this  discussion,  and  not 
to  be  silent  longer  in  this  republic.  We  have  no  legislature. 
We  ask  of  Congress  a  legislature,  and  we  intend  that  they 
shall  give  us  a  territorial  legislature  and  a  representation  in 
Congress — that  we  shall  have  our  own  laws,"and  that  Con- 
gress will  confirm  them — that  we  will  be  a  people,  and  have 
a  voice  in  this  great  republic.  I  come  here  to  tell  this  people 
that  they  have  trodden  down  the  Republican  party  with  the 
iron  heel  of  despotism,  worse  and  more  tyrannical  than  that 
of  Russia  or  the  Austrian  Empire.  What  has  the  Buchanan 
administration  done  ?  Why  sir,  they  have  gone  into  the 
workshops  of  the  government  to  seek  out  a  Republican,  and 
then  turn  him  out  to  grass,  taking  the  bread  from  his  family 
if  he  did  not  bow  down  to  the  slave  power.  But  thanks  be 
to  God,  we  come  here  like  the  gentleman  from  Maryland, 
daring  to  be  Republicans;  and  we  will  baptize  that  District 
of  Columbia  over  again;  and,  by  the  help  of  God,  we  will 
exclude  slavery  from  it  in  less  than  two  years. 

Mr.  BLAKET,  of  Kentucky :  Having  just  arrived  from  a 
meeting  of  the  Committee  on  Platform,  I  understand  that  a  pro- 


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position  has  been  made  that  this  Convention  shall  exclude  the 
delegates  from  the  state  which  in  part  I  represent.  I  should 
not  have  been  more  surprised  had  I  been  told  that  a  propo- 
sition had  been  gravely  made  that  the  ashes  of  Washington 
should  have  been  placed  without  the  pale  of  this  continent. 
[Cheers.]  I  should  not  have  been  more  surprised  had  I  been 
told  that  a  proposition  had  been  gravely  made  that  the  re- 
mains, the  precious  remains,  now  silently  resting  under  the 
shade  of  Ashland,  be  removed  from  the  precious  soil  of  Ken- 
tucky ;  nor  should  I  have  been  more  surprised  had  I  been  in- 
formed that  it  had  been  gravely  proposed  that  Cassius  M. 
Clay  [Applause.]  should  be  buried.  Who  dare  propose,  I 
say,  to  institute  a  proposition  here  that  the  free  born  sons  of 
Kentucky  and  of  Virginia,  and  of  Maryland,  and  of  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  or  even  of  Georgia,  or  any  southern  state, 
have  not  just  as  good  a  right  to  be  Republicans  and  breathe 
free  air,  and  be  free  men  upon  American  soil  as  the  old  Key- 
stone State.  [Applause.]  Gentlemen,  I  have  but  one  word 
more  to  say,  and  I  want  it  to  be  heard,  and  I  wish  it  could 
be  heard  from  one  end  of  the  continent  to  the  other.  I  had 
the  honor  of  a  seat  and  a  prominent  position,  it  was  a  position 
of  which  my  children  and  their  children  will  be  proud,  in  the 
Republican  Convention  of  1856.  [Applause.]  When  the 
vote  of  Kentucky  was  called  for,  for  candidate  for  the  Vice- 
Presidency  1  had  the  honor  then  and  there  to  announce  that 
Kentucky  had  been  experimenting;  that  we  had  held  up  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  before  the  mirror,  and  saw  re- 
flected the  platform  of  the  17th  of  June,  1S5G;  that  we  held 
up  the  precious  ordinance  of  17S7,  and  saw  reflected  the 
Wilmot  proviso;  [applause,]  and  that  Kentucky  cast  her 
vote  for  David  Wilmot.  [Laughter  and  applause.]  Thus 
stood  Kentucky  in  1850  !  Can  I  be  forgiven  for  that  sin  ? 
[Applause  and  laughter.] 

Mr.  WM.  A.  PHILLIPS,  of  Kansas  :  Mr.  President  and  gentle- 
men of  the  Republican  Convention,  I  stand  here  with  my 
fellow  colleagues  to  represent  the  people  of  Kansas.  The 


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Republicans  of  Kansas,  whom  we  have  the  honor  to  represent 
upon  this  floor,  sent  us  here  expecting  that  we  would  have 
several  grave  issues  to  meet,  but  they  did  not  expect  that 
the  representatives  of  Kansas  would  have  to  appear  upon  this 
floor  with  proof  that  Kansas  is  an  integral  part  of  the  Repub- 
lican party.  Kansas  and  the  Republican  party  were  born 
together.  [Hearty  applause.]  Its  first  impulses  were  stirred 
by  the  wrongs  of  her  people ;  the  party  was  baptized  in  her 
blood.  [Rapturous  applause.]  The  people  of  Kansas  in  1856 
appeared  in  the  National  Republican  Convention  and  threw  a 
vote  for  the  then  Republican  nominee.  The  people  of  Kan- 
sas throughout  the  whole  of  their  struggle  have  vindicated 
in  Kansas  the  Republican  party,  their  cause  and  their  princi- 
ples. Ic  may  be  said  to-day  that  Kansas  is  not  a  state — Kan- 
sas is  not  a  territory — it  is  scarcely  a  state  ;  but  the  cause  of 
liberty  is  identified  with  her  history.  She  has  a  history  and 
a  glorious  one.  This  administration,  whose  duty  it  was  to 
foster  this  infant  state,  has  dealt  with  Kansas  with  a  harsh 
rule.  The  hand  of  the  administration,  that  she  has  felt  so 
often,  has  been  a  hard,  stern  hand  ;  and  all  has  been  done  to 
keep  her  back,  and  prevent  her  from  rising  and  bearing  aloft 
the  banner  of  Republican  liberty.  If  Kansas  had  accepted 
the  Lecompton  bribe  she  would  have  been  a  state  to-day.  If 
Kansas  had  not  been  one  of  the  strongest  and  best  united 
organizations  in  the  Republican  party,  she  would  have  been 
received  into  the  Union  years  ago  by  the  Democrats  at  Wash- 
ington. [Applause.]  But  Kansas  scorned  the  Lecompton 
bribe,  and  stands  there  to-day,  and  will  stand  forever,  a  Re- 
publican state.  [Great  cheers.]  Mr.  Chairman,  Kansas  does 
not  expect  to  come  into  this  Convention  and  be  alienated 
from  the  Republican  party.  She  stands  now  a  territory  be- 
cause she  would  not  share  or  accept  the  spoils  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  She  has  alienated  herself  from  everything  to 
identify  her  people  and  her  destiny  with  the  cause  of  the 
National  Republican  party ;  and  now  I  don't  think  the  time 
has  come  when  the  Republicans  can  alienate  her  from  them. 
[Loud  cheers.]  I  do  not  wish  to  consume  the  time  of  this 


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Convention  by  arguing  this  point.  I  do  not  think  the  gentle- 
men of  this  Convention  will  demand  that  Kansas  shall  be 
excluded.  She  has  come  here  to  say  if  she  have  preferences 
she  will  exercise  these  preferences  or  leave  this  hall.  Kansas 
believes  in  the  right,  which  has  carried  her  through  many  a 
dark  hour;  and  she  believes  that  it  is  principle  alone  which 
will  carry  the  Republican  cause  through  in  triumph. 

Mr.  WILMOT,  of  Pennsylvania:  I  regret  exceedingly  that  I 
was  misunderstood  by  the  gentlemen  who  have  responded  to 
me  in  behalf  of  the  States  of  Maryland,  Virginia  and  Kentucky. 
I  made  no  proposition  to  exclude  those  gentlemen  from  a  fair 
representation  upon  this  floor — [Applause] — none  at  all.  I 
proposed  that  certain  states  be  referred  back  to  the  committee 
for  the  purpose  of  an  investigation,  to  see  what  vote  they  are 
entitled  to  on  this  floor. 

Mr.  BLAKET  :  I  was  not  present  when  the  proposition  was 
made. 

Mr.  WILMOT  :  In  the  course  of  my  argument,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  enforcing  the  propriety  of  my  amendment,  I  presented 
certain  considerations  that  seemed  to  me  to  be  entitled  to 
weight,  to  wit:  that  gentlemen  who  come  here  representing 
no  party — having  no  constituencies — were  not  entitled  to  vote 
for  their  states  upon  this  floor.  That  was  the  simple  propo- 
sition that  I  made.  Now,  I  desire  that  the  facts  be  inquired 
into.  Will  it  be  pretended  that  thirty  gentlemen  meeting  at 
the  city  of  Baltimore,  not  delegates  from  the  counties  of  the 
state,  but  gentlemen  assembling  together — have  a  right  to 
represent  and  select  twenty  delegates  ? 

Mr.  ARMOUR  :  Will  you  allow  me  to  correct  you  ? 
Mr.  WILMOT  :  Certainly. 

Mr.  ARMOUR  :  There  has  existed  in  Baltimore  city,  for  a 
number  of  years,  a  Republican  association.  That  association, 
in  obedience  to  the  call  of  the  National  Executive  Committee, 


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issued  calls  for  the  Republicans  of  Maryland  to  meet  in  Balti- 
more, at  such  a  time  specified  in  the  call,  for  the  purpose  of 
nominating  an  electoral  ticket  and  sending  delegates  to  this 
Convention.  When  that  Convention  met  every  Congressional 
district  in  the  State  of  Maryland  was  represented.  [Applause.] 
There  were  gentlemen  from  the  eastern  shore  and  the  western 
shore — from  the  extreme  east  to  the  extreme  west.  There 
were,  perhaps,  only  thirty-five  or  forty  delegates ;  but  there 
were  at  least  150  or  200  Republicans  in  the  Convention. 
Baltimore  city  sent  only  eleven  delegates,  and  therefore  she 
was  entitled  to  only  eleven  votes,  yet  the  hall  was  full  of 
Republicans.  My  town  is  full  of  Republicans,  and  I  wish  to 
say  in  reference  to  the  remark  of  Judge  Wilmot,  that  we  have 
no  party  in  Maryland,  I  have  the  assurance  of  a  gentleman, 
and  know  it  to  be  true,  that  in  my  town — which  polls  only 
about  900  votes — we  can  poll  300  votes  at  the  next  election, 
nearly  half  the  votes  of  the  town — not  of  the  district.  That 
is  all  I  have  to  say. 

Mr.  WILMOT  :  The  explanation  that  the  gentleman  has  made, 
if  it  does  anything,  would  enforce  the  propriety  of  my  motion. 
What  I  have  desired  is  that  the  committee  should  investigate 
this  subject  and  report  the  facts  in  respect  to  these  states. 
That  is  what  I  have  desired.  If  Maryland  be  properly  repre- 
sented here ;  if  there  be  a  party  in  Maryland,  whether  great, 
large  or  small,  that  stands  as  an  organized  party  in  the  field, 
that  is  the  point;  not  that  there  maybe  Republicans  scat- 
tered over  the  state.  There  may  be  a  majority  in  the  town 
in  which  the  gentleman  lives.  There  may  be  individual 
Republicans  scattered  over  that  state  in  every  county,  but 
have  they  combined  together  in  a  Republican  organization, 
and  do  they  come  here  representing  an  organized  party? 
This  is  the  question  I  desire  this  committee  to  inquire  into, 
and  that  is  the  very  object  of  the  motion.  The  committee 
might  report  that  Maryland  was  entitled  to  her  senatorial 
votes  on  this  floor,  and  that  she  was  entitled  to  a  vote  from 
such  and  such  a  district.  If  they  so  reported  upon  the  facts 


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before  them  I  shall  be  willing  to  accept  that  report.  So  too, 
as  to  Virginia,  if  the  committee  reported  that  certain  districts 
in  Virginia  took  regular  action  as  an  organized  party  and 
elected  their  delegates,  and  were  entitled  to  so  many  votes  in 
virtue  of  the  delegates  from  such  districts,  I  should  be  willing 
to  accept  that  report,  and  in  addition,  I  should  stand  ready 
to  give  them  the  two  electoral  votes  of  their  state.  So  in 
respect  to  Texas.  But  what  are  the  facts  about  her,  gentle- 
men? I  speak  of  it  upon  nothing  but  rumor  and  as  a  rumor 
— I  don't  assert  the  fact,  for  I  know  nothing  about  it — but  I 
am  told  that  the  gentlemen  who  are  here  from  Texas,  or  a 
majority  of  them,  are  not  residents  of  the  state  at  all,  and  that 
they  have  no  Republican  organization  in  that  state.  It  may 
be  said  that  the  delegates  of  Oregon  are  not  residents  of  that 
state.  But  we  know  that  Oregon  has  a  formidable  party — a 
minority  it  is  true  ;  but  we  know  that  they  held  a  regular 
State  Convention,  and  that  they  elected  their  delegates  regu- 
larly, and  that  some  of  those  gentlemen  have  given  deputa- 
tions to  certain  distinguished  gentlemen  here,  and  that  these 
gentlemen  are  entitled  to  their  seats;  so  if  Texas  has  held  a 
regular  convention  and  elected  her  delegates,  and  they  find  it 
inconvenient  to  attend  as  delegates,  and  they  have  deputed 
others  to  represent  them,  then,  gentlemen,  they  are  entitled 
to  seats  upon  this  floor.  But  if  there  has  been  no  convention 
— no  movement  in  Texas,  if  nothing  having  the  semblance 
of  a  party  has  taken  action  in  the  State  of  Texas,  and  certain 
gentlemen  are  here  for  the  purpose  of  controlling  this  result, 
then  I  say  it  is  mischievous,  it  is  demoralizing;  it  will  break 
up  any  party  under  God's  Heaven.  Will  the  distinguished 
gentleman,  a  candidate  before  this  Convention,  or  rather  his 
friends,  consent  that  they  shall  be  overslaughed  or  defeated 
by  the  votes  of  gentlemen  representing  no  party,  by  gentle- 
men having  no  constituents?  Will  the  friends  of  the  candi- 
date which  Pennsylvania  will  present  submit  to  such  a  pro- 
cedure? If  they  do,  it  would  be  extremely  hard — it  would 
be  difficult  to  enforce  submission.  This  was  the  object  of  my 
proposition.  I  wish,  gentlemen,  instead  of  indulging  in 


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declamation  and  rhetorical  flourishes,  in  appeals  to  the  ashes 
of  Washington,  had  consented  to  meet  the  question  fairly  by 
argument.  I  raised  no  question  with  the  good  gentleman 
from  Maryland  as  to  who  has  dared  more  or  suffered  more  in 
this  cause.  I  concede  to  him  and  his  associates  the  palm  of 
victory  in  that.  But  if  every  Republican  who  has  suffered  in 
the  cause  of  freedom  is  to  come  in  to  settle  this  question,  then 
the  little  territory  of  Kansas  can  control  this  Convention — 
under  that  rule  she  has  the  right  to  control  it.  She  has  poured 
out  her  blood  freely  in  this  cause.  The  graves  of  our  mur- 
dered sons  are  scattered  all  over  her  territory.  If  the  ques- 
tion is  as  to  those  who  have  suffered  in  the  cause  of  Republi- 
canism, who  have  been  mobbed,  and  those  are  to  come  here 
and  control  this  Convention,  then  let  us  adjourn  and  invite 
Kansas  to  come  here  in  a  body,  man,  woman  and  child,  and 
let  them  say  whom  the  Republican  party  shall  nominate  as 
candidate  for  President.  The  simple  question  is,  are  all  the 
"good  men"  here  from  Virginia, Maryland,  Texas  and  certain 
other  districts  as  representatives,  or  are  they  here  as  individual 
Republicans?  I  don't  question  their  Republicanism.  I  have 
no  doubt  upon  that  point.  I  did  not  intimate  that  they  had 
been  purchased  by  money;  I  cast  no  imputations  upon  their 
integrity  ;  but  this  I  do  assert,  that  if  this  precedent  be 
adopted,  that  at  the  next  Convention  the  sympathies  or  the 
anxiety  of  friends  to  secure  their  candidate  may  be  employed 
to  secure  delegations  here  from  every  state  of  the  Union,  not 
because  there  is  a  party  there  to  represent,  but  because  the 
anxiety  of  the  friends  of  candidates  will  bring  men  here. 
Would  it  be  difficult  to  find  twelve  men  in  the  State  of  Ten- 
nessee who  are  Republicans  ?  I  doubt  not  if  inducements 
were  held  out  to  them  they  could  come  here  from  Georgia, 
Alabama,  Mississippi,  and  all  the  southern  states.  Then  what 
would  be  the  result?  Instead  of  requiring  304  votes,  you 
would  have  to  require  that  there  should  be  400  votes.  Why 
require  400,  or  why  require  304,  except  that  you  have  already 
virtually  demoralized  the  Convention?  If  you  have  men  here 
who  do  not  represent  an  organized  party  at  home,  they  should 

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not  cast  votes  for  their  states  for  a  Republican  President.  It 
was  for  the  purpose  of  inquiry,  not  to  proscribe  or  disfran- 
chise anybody,  that  my  motion  was  made. 

MR.  MONTGOMERY  BLAIR,  of  Maryland  :  Will  you  permit  a 
delegate  from  Maryland  to  say  one  word.  1  wish  merely  to 
say  to  the  Convention — [Voices  "  Louder !"]  I  can  only 
make  myself  heard  over  a  small  space.  But  I  must  say  one 
word,  and  that  is,  so  far  as  my  feelings  are  concerned,  and  of 
a  large  majority  of  those  with  whom  I  am  associated  on  this 
floor,  the  sentiments  uttered  by  the  honorable  gentleman  from 
Pennsylvania  meet  our  entire  accord.  [Applause.]  We  wish 
no  larger  voice  in  this  deliberation  than  the  gentlemen  of  the 
Convention  with  whom  we  are  associated  shall  deem  our 
members  and  those  whom  we  represent  entitled  to  have  on 
this  floor.  [Cheers.]  We  do  not  come  here,  (and  I  speak  for 
myself  and,  I  believe,  a  large  portion  of  those  representing 
slave  states  on  this  .floor,)  we  do  not  wish  to  stand  here  as 
dictating  to  those  who  have  to  elect  the  candidates.  We  are 
willing,  we  ask  only  to  be  heard,  and  if  permitted  we  will 
give  our  votes  in  the  direction  which  we  think  ought  to  be 
taken  by  the  Convention  ;  but  we  do  not  wish,  and  we  will 
endeavor  so  to  act — and  I  am  sure  I  represent  the  sentiments 
of  those  who  are  associated  with  me — upon  this  point  as  not 
to  give  any  controlling  voice  in  the  Convention.  [Applause.] 
That  is  all  I  have  to  say  upon  the  subject.  I  would  be  glad 
to  have  some  action,  if  the  Convention  deem  it  necessary, 
taken  upon  the  point  which  the  honorable  gentleman  from 
Pennsylvania  has,  I  think,  timely  made  before  this  body,  and 
I  therefore  second  his  motion.  [Applause.] 

Gov.  CLEVELAND,  of  Connecticut :  I  regret  exceedingly  the 
remarks  of  the  gentleman  from  Maryland,  Mr.  Montgomery 
Blair  ;  I  can  see  imminent  danger  in  this  movement  now 
made,  and  I  look  upon  it  as  unfortunate.  We  are  here  to-day 
with  high  hopes  of  victory — with  almost  the  assurance  of 
victory.  We  should  remember  that  in  consequence  of  the 


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action  of  one  solitary  man  as  a  representative  in  Congress,  for 
the  State  of  Maryland — to  Henry  W.  Davis — we  have  a  Speak- 
er by  whom  we  have  been  able  to  expose  the  corrupt  frauds 
of  the  administration,  and  give  us  the  assurance  of  victory  in 
November.  [Loud  cheers.]  And  yet  we  are  not  willing  to  give 
her  a  full  vote !  In  the  name  of  God  and  humanity  what  are 
we  doing?  I  heard  a  Maryland  delegate  say  he  was  willing 
to  take  a  half  loaf  of  bread.  I  want  to  give  her  all;  she 
has  given  us  all.  [Cheers.]  This  is  all  on  that  point.  We 
have  been  charged  for  years  with  being  a  sectional  party. 
The  lie  does  not  stick  in  their  throats,  but  we  can  make  it 
stick  in  theirs  and  ours  by  our  folly  ;  we  are  not  a  sectional 
party  !  [Cheers.]  We  want  the  slave  states  to  come  here 
and  be  represented.  I  say  in  this  very  connection,  that,  know- 
ingly or  not,  the  understanding  of  the  slave  states  is  that  the 
power  is  to  be  changed  from  the  hands  of  the  slave  oligarchy 
and  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  friends  of  freedom,  in  the  free 
states  as  well  as  the  slave  states,  and  hence  they  deserve  to 
share  in  this  great  and  glorious  work.  If  we  succeed  next  fall,  as 
I  believe  we  shall,  with  men  competent  to  take  charge  of  the 
government,  and  put  secession  and  disunion  where  it  belongs 
(and  God  grant  we  may  all  live  to  see  it,)  we  will  probabjy 
have  the  entire  slave  states  represented  in  our  next  National 
Convention.  [Loud  cheers.]  I  believe  it.  Why  should  we 
not?  The  disunionists  are  in  a  small  minority  in  the  slave 
states,  and  they  keep  down  the  majority  by  just  such  unwise 
operations  as  was  attempted  here  this  morning.  If  we  treat 
them  kindly  and  hold  our  hands  out  to  them,  as  men  compe- 
tent to  fill  the  high  offices  of  the  United  States,  we  shall  have 
the  majority  out  from  under  the  heel  of  the  slave  oligarchy. 
We  shall  unite  the  voice  of  the  American  people  in  favor  of 
the  Republican  organization.  I  say,  sir,  and  I  wish  it  to  be 
understood  everywhere,  I  am  not  here  for  the  purpose  of 
making  wrar  on  the  slave  states,  nor  do  I  believe  that  there  is 
a  man  in  this  house  who  is.  We  have  been  charged  with 
that.  It  is  false  and  they  know  it.  We  are  here  for  the  pur- 
pose of  satisfying  the  American  people  that  we  are  willing  to 


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give  the  slave  states  their  entire  rights.  We  say  to  those 
gentlemen,  "with  that  you  will  be  content — beyond  that 
you  shall  not  go."  A  large  majority  of  the  voters  south,  if 
they  dare  express  it  in  the  south,  would  be  with  us.  Their 
hearts  are  with  us  now.  For  God's  sake  and  humanity's  sake 
let  us  not  establish  the  fact,  by  our  folly,  that  we  are  a  section- 
al party,  and  hate  the  slave  states.  [Cheers.] 

MR.  OYLER,  of  Indiana:  I  merely  desire,  gentlemen,  to  call 
the  attention  of  this  Convention  to  the  call  inviting  delegates 
to  this  Convention.  Read  and  reflect  for  one  minute  what 
that  call  contains  and  it  settles  this  question.  What  is  it '? 

"  The  Republican  electors  of  the  several  states,  the  members 
of  the  People's  Party  of  Pennsylvania  and  of  the  Opposition 
Party  of  New  Jersey,  and  all  others  who  are  willing  to  co- 
operate with  them  in  support  of  the  candidates  which  shall 
there  be  nominated,  and  who  are  opposed  to  the  policy  of  the 
present  administration,  to  federal  corruption  and  usurpation,  to 
the  extension  of  slavery  into  the  territories,  to  the  new  and 
dangerous  political  doctrine  that  the  constitution  of  its  own 
force  carries  slavery  into  all  the  Territories  of  the  United 
States,  to  the  opening  of  the  African  slave  trade,  to  any  ine- 
quality of  rights  among  citizens  ;  and  who  are  in  favor  of  the 
immediate  admission  of  Kansas  into  the  Union,  under  the 
constitution  recently  adopted  by  its  people,  of  restoring  the 
federal  administration  to  a  system  of  rigid  economy  and  to 
the  principles  of  Washington  and  Jefferson,  of  maintaining 
inviolate  the  rights  of  the  states  and  defending  the  soil  of 
every  state  and  territory  from  lawless  invasion,  and  of  pre- 
serving the  integrity  of  this  Union  and  the  supremacy  of  the 
constitution  and  laws  passed  in  pursuance  thereof  against  the 
conspiracy  of  the  leaders  of  a  sectional  party,  to  resist  the 
majority  principle  as  established  in  this  government  even  at 
the  expense  of  its  existence,  are  invited  to  send  from  each 
state  two  delegates  from  each  congressional  district,  and  four 
delegates  at  large,  to  the  Convention." 


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Why  when  we  have  issued  a  call  to  those  men,  called  them 
from  the  sunny  shores  of  the  south  to  the  bleak  regions  of  the 
north,  to  meet  us,  why  should  be  mooted  the  right  of  these 
gentlemen  to  counsel,  to  vote,  to  select  a  candidate  and  with 
us  go  home  to  help  us  elect  the  man  that  we  may  nominate, 
and  carry  forward  the  principles  that  we  proclaim  here. 
[Cheers.]  I  say,  gentlemen,  you  can't  discuss  this  question. 
The  question  is  settled  by  the  call.  If  we  are  honest,  if  we 
are  not  the  veriest  hypocrites  in  the  world,  we  have  no  right 
to  question  the  right  of  the  slave  states  to  be  represented 
here  upon  this  floor.  [Applause.]  I  have  a  word  to  say 
about  the  territories.  I  don't  think  that  they  stand  upon  the 
same  ground.  The  call  is  not  to  them.  They  have  no  vote 
for  our  candidates  after  we  have  nominated  them,  and  I  am 
in  favor  of  following  out  the  rules  of  the  federation.  I  am  in 
favor  of  the  delegates  from  the  territories  holding  seats  upon 
this  floor,  being  heard,  and  attentively  heard,  on  our  part ;  I 
am  in  favor  of  their  counseling  with  us,  but  when  it  comes 
to  the  vote,  as  they  have  no  vote  for  the  ticket,  they  ought 
not  to  vote  in  forming  it.  The  District  of  Columbia  is  in  the 
same  situation. 

Gov.  REEDER,  of  Pennsylvania — [in  his  seat] :  Mr.  Chair- 
man, [cries  of  "  take  the  stand,"]  I  can  be  heard  here  if  I  can 
get  started.  I  have  not  much  to  say,  but  what  I  have  to  say 
I  shall  endeavor  to  say  to  the  point.  It  seems  to  me  that  a 
great  deal  has  been  said  altogether  outside  of  this  question  now 
before  the  Convention.  The  proposition  before  us,  if  I  under- 
stand it,  is  to  refer  this  report  back  to  the  committee  for  the 
purpose  of  ascertaining  whether  these  gentlemen  now  here 
upon  the  floor  of  the  Convention  from  the  states  designated 
represent  the  entire,  or  less  than  the  entire  state.  Now  sir, 
all  the  eloquence,  and  all  the  fire  of  many  of  the  gentlemen 
upon  the  other  side  is  lost  when  we  make  the  avowal  that 
we  have  not  the  most  remote  idea  of  disfranchising  the  dele- 
gates who  come  here  from  the  southern  states.  [Loud  ap- 
plause.] Sir,  we  humbly  ask  from  our  southern  brethren 


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upon  this  floor  the  poor  privilege  of  being  put  upon  an  equal- 
ity with  them.  [Renewed  applause.]  When  Pennsylvania, 
Illinois,  Indiana  and  Iowa  come  here,  sir,  with  a  delegate  from 
one,  two  or  three  congressional  districts,  we  want  them  to 
vote  for  one,  two  or  three  congressional  districts.  [Applause.] 
But,  when  they  vote  the  entire  vote  of  the  State  of  Maryland, 
and  the  vote  of  the  electors  at  large,  they  have  a  great  advan- 
tage over  us.  What  I  wish  to  avoid,  sir,  is  that  in  any  state* 
whether  north  or  south,  east  or  west,  a  few  men  should 
come  from  a  single  county,  or  a  single  congressional  district, 
and  then  come  upon  the  floor  of  this  Convention  and  ask  to 
cast  the  entire  vote  of  the  state.  Now,  sir,  I  ask  these  gen- 
tlemen who  have  declaimed  so  loudly  and  so  eloquently  in 
favor  of  oar  brethren  of  the  south  to  listen  to  us ;  and  no 
man  on  this  floor  or  away  from  this  floor  can  go  further  than 
I  in  my  admiration  for  those  gentlemen  who  stand  up  in  the 
face  of  the  despotism  exercised  by  the  oligarchy  that  sur- 
rounds them,  and  contend  for  the  rights  of  free  speech,  free 
labor  and  free  men.  [Applause.]  Sir,  I  know  what  the 
despotism  of  that  oligarchy  is.  [Great  applause.]  I  know, 
sir,  that  it  hunts  men  like  hounds  who  have  the  spirit  of  free- 
men. [Renewed  applause.]  I  respect  and  I  admire  every 
man  to  whom  God  has  given  the  nerve  and  the  back  bone  to 
stand  up  and  face  that  despotism.  [Continued  applause.]  I 
am  ready  to  extend  the  right  hand  of  fellowship  to  all  the 
gentlemen  who  have  come  out  "  tried  out  of  the  fire "  to 
meet  us  in  this  national  conclave.  What  I  ask  of  them  is  the 
poor  privilege  of  being  on  an  equal  footing  with  them  in  this 
Convention.  I  am  sure  they  ought  not  and  would  not  ask 
any  more ;  but  if  gentlemen  are  here  representing  a  single 
district  from  the  State  of  Texas,  or  a  single  district  from  the 
State  of  Maryland,  or  from  the  State  of  Kentucky,  will  they, 
sir,  be  unjust  and  unfair  enough  to  stand  up  here,  being  the 
representatives  of  a  single  district,  and  ask  to  cast  the  vote 
of  the  entire  state  ?  Assuredly  not,  sir ;  and  assuredly  those 
gentlemen,  when  they  come  to  reflect  upon  this  subject,  will 
see  the  propriety  of  ascertaining  how  much  of  their  state  is 


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represented,  and  having  found  that  to  apportion  their  vote 
according  to  what  they  really  represent,  giving  to  them  such 
a  vote  as  they  represent,  to  which  I  would  be  willing  to  add 
two  votes  at  large  to  which  the  state  is  entitled.  [Prolonged 
applause,  and  cries  of  "  Question,"  "  Question."] 

Mr.  BUCKLAXD,  of  Michigan  :  I  cannot  discover  what 
object  is  to  be  gained  by  referring  back  that  report  to  the 
committee,  but  that  the  gentleman  may  have  the  benefit  of 
his  motion.  I  wish  to  make  an  amendment.  I  propose  to 
include  also  Oregon. 

The  CHAIR  :  I  will  put  the  question  first  on  the  general 
recommitment,  and  then  the  gentleman  may  propose  states 
and  territories. 

Mr.  BUCKLAND  :  I  propose  to  make  an  amendment,  and  I 
believe  the  vote  should  first  be  taken  upon  my  motion  to 
amend. 

Mr.  McCniLLJS,  of  Maine  :  I  have  a  single  word  to  say,  in 
reply  to  the  gentleman  from  Indiana.  I  agree  with  the 
gentleman  in  the  doctrines  he  announces,  as  to  the  territories 
and  the  confederation  ;  all  of  them,  sir,  except  Kansas.  Why, 
I  say  Kansas  is  in  the  Union  now.  It  is  a  rule  of  equity,  that 
when  a  thing  ought  to  be  done,  it  is  to  be  considered  as  done. 
[Applause  and  laughter.]  I  say,  sir,  Kansas,  if  she  is  out  of 
the  Union,  is  out  of  the  Union  on  account  of  the  corrupt  and 
despotic  senate  of  the  United  States,  and  in  this  Convention 
she  should  be  treated  as  a  sovereign  state.  While  I  am  up, 
I  will  make  a  remark  in  reply  tD  the  gentleman  from  Penn- 
sylvania, Mr.  Wilmot,  who  told  the  Convention  that  the  time 
would  come,  although  he  qualified  it  some,  when  South 
Carolina,  Georgia,  Alabama,  and  all  the  southern  states, 
would  be  represented  in  this  Convention.  On  behalf  of  the 
most  northeastern  state  in  this  Union,  the  State  of  Maine,  I 
say  that  we  from  that  cold  region  will  welcome  them — aye, 
thrice  welcome  them.  [Applause.] 


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Mr.  HACKLEMAN,  of  Indiana :  I  have  no  doubt  about  the 
propriety  of  admitting  the  delegates  from  the  southern  states, 
except  one,  to  a  vote  in  this  Convention.  I  have  great 
doubts  in  regard  to  the  propriety  of  admitting  the  State  of 
Texas.  So  far  as  Virginia,  so  far  as  Maryland,  or  Missouri, 
or  Kentucky  are  concerned,  it  is  a  matter  of  public  notoriety, 
that  they  have  held  Republican  Conventions  to  appoint  dele- 
gates to  this  Convention ;  but  where  is  the  notoriety  of  the 
Convention  of  the  State  of  Texas  ?  I  want  to  hear  from  the 
delegate  from  the  State  of  Texas,  to  know  who  appointed 
him  to  come  here.  All  the  others  I  shall  welcome  with 
open  hands.  We  are  no  sectional  party.  We  are  the  party 
of  the  Union.  [Applause.]  We  are  the  party  to  control  this 
government,  and  we  want  all  these  states  here.  But  let  us 
know  in  regard  to  Texas.  I  understand  that  was  the 
original  proposition ;  the  other  was  added  by  way  of  amend- 
ment. I  do  want  an  investigation  so  far  as  Texas  is  concerned. 

Mr.  M.  T.  C.  CHANDLER,  of  Texas  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Con- 
vention, I  cannot  believe  that  you  are  prepared  to  stifle  the 
voice  of  Texas,  because  there  the  Republican  party  is  in  its 
infancy ;  for  though  it  is  in  its  infancy,  it  is  nevertheless  a 
hopeful  child.  [Loud  cheers.]  Gentlemen,  the  foreign  popu- 
lation— the  Germans,  are  with  us,  [Loud  cheers]  and  there 
will  be  an  electoral  ticket  in  the  field  there.  We  come  here 
with  no  axes  to  grind.  We  have  our  preferences,  to  be  sure, 
and  when  the  time  comes,  if  we  are  permitted,  we  shall  ex- 
press that  preference.  I  am  sorry  that  this  motion  should 
come  from  the  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania,  where  there  is 
not  sufficient  pluck,  where  there  is  not  the  moral  courage  to 
come  out  and  to  take  a  manly  stand  in  favor  of  the  right  as 
a  Republican  party.  [Applause,  cheers  and  a  few  hisses.] 
Organize  yourselves  and  train  under  the  Republican  banner 
before  you  accuse  us  in  Texas  of  not  having  a  Republican 
organization.  I  throw  back  the  insinuation  that  we  have  not 
a  Republican  party  in  Texas.  The  intimation  is  unbecom- 
ing, it  is  unmanly,  it  is  anti-Republican.  [Cheers.]  I  hail 


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from  Galveston.  There  is  free  soil,  there  is  anti-slavery  senti- 
ment there,  and  it  will  be  expressed  next  fall  at  the  polls, 
depend  upon  it.  [Loud  applause  and  cheers.]  We  ask  a 
hearing  on  the  floor  of  this  Convention,  and  we  believe  you 
will  grant  it  to  us. 

Mr.  EGGLESTON,  of  Ohio :  I  Understand  now  that  we  are 
about  to  go  into  the  business  for  which  we  were  convened, 
and  that  no  part  of  that  business  is  the  making  of  sympa- 
thetic speeches,  as  to  the  right  to  admit  the  delegates  of  this 
territory  or  that  territory,  or  this  section  or  that  section  of 
country  into  this  Convention.  Now,  sir,  the  gentleman  from 
Indiana  has  well  said  that  this  investigation  only  had  to  be 
made  so  far  as  relates  to  Texas.  I  wish  to  have  the  members 
of  this  Convention  confined  to  that  call,  and  then  the  Commit- 
tee, which  has  reported,  or  attempted  to  report  on  Credentials, 
has  not  the  nerve  to  go  out,  and  come  in  and  say  to  this  Con- 
vention what  they  believe  right,  and  who  should  vote.  Let 
them  go  out  again,  and  come  in  with  a  definite  report,  and 
then  we  will  say  whether  we  will  support  them  or  no.  For 
gentlemen  to  come  here  and  make  speeches  about  Kansas  or 
any  other  territory  is  entirely  out  of  order.  I  have  spent  my 
money  and  I  have  worked  for  Kansas,  but  I  am  not  here  now 
to  talk  about  it.  I  am  here  now  to  nominate  the  men  who 
shall  be  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 
[Applause.] 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota  :  I  simply  desire  to  say  that  I 
am  in  favor  of  less  talk  and  more  work.  ["Good,  good" — 
"  No  more  speeches  now."]  I  am  not  going  to  make  a 
speech.  I  hope  the  discussion  on  this  question  for  the  pre- 
sent will  here  terminate,  and  that  the  question  will  now  be 
.put.  [Cries  of  "  Question,  question."] 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  would  like  to  have  tfce  District  of  Colum- 
bia, Kansas  and  Nebraska  included. 

The  question  being  on  the  adoption  of  the  amendment  of 
Mr.  Buckland,  of  Michigan,  recommitting  so  much  of  the 
9 


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report  as  relates  to  the  State  of  Oregon,  the  vote  was  taken 
and  the  amendment  was  voted  down. 

The  question  then  being  on  the  adoption  of  the  amendment 
of  Mr.  Wilmot,  recommitting  such  portion  as  referred  to 
Kentucky,  Virginia  and  Maryland,  the  vote  was  taken,  and 
this  amendment  was  also  voted  down. 

The  question  then  recurring  on  the  motion  of  Mr.  Davis,  of 
Massachusetts,  to  recommit  such  portion  as  referred  to  Texas, 
the  vote  was  taken  and  the  motion  lost.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  LOWRY,  of  Pennsylvania :  I  now  move  that  the  whole 
report  be  recommitted  to  the  committee,  and  that  we  take 
the  vote  by  states. 

Mr.  EGGLESTON,  of  Ohio  :  And  I  second  the  motion. 

Mr.  LOWRY:  That  committee  has  not  given  us  anything  to 
act  upon.  It  has  given  us  nothing.  I  am  not  going  to  in- 
flict a  speech  upon  this  Convention,  but  I  ask  that  the  com- 
mittee have  it  back,  that  they  may  give  us  something. 

Mr.  BENTOX,  of  New  Hampshire :  I  desire  to  state  that  the 
committee  appointed  a  sub-committee,  who  considered  the 
case  of  Maryland  particularly,  and  they  were  unanimously  of 
the  opinion  that  the  delegates  reported  from  that  State  were 
entitled  to  represent  the  State  in  this  Convention.  They  had 
not  the  time  to  make  that  investigation  in  regard  to  Texas 
that  was  desirable,  but  it  was  understood  that  the  Conven- 
tion was  in  session,  waiting  to  receive  the  report  of  the  com- 
mittee ;  therefore  it  was  thought  desirable,  it  being  the  opinion 
of  the  majority  of  that  committee  that  they  were  entitled  to 
their  seats,  so  to  report.  I  think  the  committee  was  entirely 
satisfied  with  the  evidence  furnished  to  them  as  to  all  the 
delegates  who  have  been  reported  here  as  being  entitled  to 
represent  the  several  States  from  which  they  come.  I  state 
this  at  the  request  of  the  members  of  that  committee. 

Mr.  LOWRY  :  I  call  for  a  vote  by  States. 


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The  PRESIDENT:  The  Chair  will  inform  the  gentleman 
that  there  is  no  rule  by  which  that  can  be  arrived  at  under 
the  rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives  which  have  been 
adopted  as  the  rules  of  the  Convention. 

Motion  to  recommit  lost  on  a  viva  voce  vote. 

A  division  being  loudly  called  for, 

The  PRESIDENT  :  A  division  is  called  for.  With  the  con- 
sent of  the  Convention,  the  roll  of  the  States  will  be  called 
further,  and  the  delegations  will  then  announce  their  votes. 

Mr.  BENTON,  of  N.  H.,  and  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Credentials  :  I  will  say  here  that  the  committee  are  not  satis- 
fied that  the  delegates  claiming  seats  from  Texas  were  entitled 
to  them  as  a  whole.  The  Chairman  of  the  committee  thought 
it  ought  to  have  further  investigation. 

The  roll  of  the  States  was  then  called,  on  the  motion  of  Mr. 
LOWRY,  of  Pennsylvania,  to  recommit  the  report  to  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials. 

STATES.  YES.  N"o. 

Maine, 3  13 

New  Hampshire, 9  1 

Vermont, 9  1 

Massachusetts, 13  9 

Rhode  Island, 8 

Connecticut, 10  2 

New  York, ]  69 

New  Jersey, 14 

Pennsylvania,   53 J  OJ 

Maryland, 4  6 

Delaware, 1  5 

Virginia,    30 

Kentucky,  24 

Ohio,    46 

Indiana, 26 

Missouri,   4  14 

Michigan, 12 


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STATES.  YES.  No. 

Illinois, 22 

Wisconsin, 10 

Iowa, , 8 

California, 4              3 

Minnesota, 8 

Oregon, 5 


Total, 275£ 

The  delegation  from  Texas  asked  to  be  excused  from 
voting. 

The  Territories  and  the  District  of  Columbia  were  not 
called. 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota  :  Are  there  any  instructions 
to  accompany  this  recommitment.  [Many  voices,  "  No."] 

Mr.  BURGESS,  of  Ohio  :  I  move,  sir,  that  we  now  adjourn 
until  3  o'clock. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Burgess  to  adjourn  was  carried. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION.* 

The  Convention  reassembled  at  3:15  P.  M.,  and  was  called 
to  order  by  the  President. 

The  PRESIDENT  begs  leave  to  suggest  that  there  are  out- 
side of  this  building,  vast  as  it  is,  twice  as  many  honest  hearts 
and  wise  heads  as  there  are  here.  They  have  requested  me 
to  suggest  that  Gov.  Randall,  of  Wisconsin,  will  go  out  and 
favor  them  with  his  views.  [Applause  and  cries  of  "  Cor- 
win,"  "  Corwin."] 

Mr.  TRACY,  of  California :  I  think  Mr.  Corwin  had  better 
go  out  with  Gov.  Randall.  [Laughter.] 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  the  report  of  the  Committee 
on  Credentials. 


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Mr.  BENSON,  of  New  Hampshire,  Chairman  of  the  commit- 
tee :  Mr.  President — The  Committee  on  Credentials  have  in- 
structed me  to  report  that,  having  examined  the  credentials, 
&c.,  of  the  several  gentlemen  claiming  seats  in  this  Conven- 
tion, they  find  gentlemen  entitled  to  seats  in  the  following 
States,  and  each  State  to  the  following  number  of  delegates  : 

No.  OP  NV>.  OF 

STATES.  DELEGATES.  ELECT"!.  VOTES 

Maine,    16  8 

New  Hampshire, 10  5 

Vermont,   10  5 

Massachusetts, 26  13 

Rhode  Island, 8  4 

Connecticut, 12  6 

New  York, 70  35 

New  Jersey, 14  7 

Pennsylvania,    54  27 

Maryland, 11  8 

Delaware, 6  8 

Virginia, 23  15 

Kentucky,   23  12 

Ohio, 46  23 

Indiana, 26  13 

Missouri, 18  9 

Michigan, 12  6 

Illinois, 22  11 

Wisconsin, 10  5 

Iowa,   8  4 

California,    8  4 

Minnesota, S  4 

Oregon, 5  3 

TERRITORIES. 

Kansas, 6 

Nebraska, •. 6 

District  Columbia, 2 

[Cries  of  "Texas,"  "Texas,"]  The  committee  have  con- 
sidered the  question  in  regard  to  the  representation  from  Ihe 


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State  of  Texas;  they  have  given  to  the  examination  all  that 
care  which  they  were  able  to,  and  which  the  time  from  the 
adjournment  of  the  Convention  this  forenoon  would  allow, 
and  they  have  instructed  me  almost  unanimously,  with  a  soli- 
tary vote  as  an  exception,  to  report  that  Texas  be  allowed  six 
votes  in  this  Convention.  [Tremendous  applause  and  cries  of 
"  good,"  "  good."]  It  was  proved  before  the  committee  that 
the  convention  which  elected  the  delegates  from  Texas — resi- 
dent delegates  who  are  here  in  attendance — was  a  mass  con- 
vention ;  that  it  was  called  upon  a  petition  signed  by  some 
three  hundred  of  the  legal  voters  of  Texas.  [Applause.] 
That  that  call  was  published  in  the  State ;  that  written 
notices  and  advertisements  were  posted  up  in  various  parts  of 
Texas,  where  there  is  any  number  of  people  in  favor  of  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party ;  and  the  committee  were 
almost  unanimously  of  the  opinion  that  these  delegates, 
elected  under  these  circumstances,  were  fairly  entitled  to  act 
as  the  representatives  of  the  Republican  party  of  the  State  of 
Texas.  [Prolonged  applause.] 

The  question  being  on  the  adoption  of  the  report,  it  was 
adopted  unanimously,  amid  great  cheering. 

Mr.  CORWINE,  of  Ohio,  and  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Rules  and  the  Order  of  Business,  moved  to  take  from  the 
table  the  report  of  that  committee. 

The  motion  was  carried. 

Mr.  CORWINE  proceeded  to  read  the  rules  reported  by  the 
committee,  as  follows:  1st.  That  upon  all  subjects  before  the 
Convention,  the  States  and  Territories  shall  be  called  in  the 
following  order :  Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Massa- 
chusetts, Rhode  Island,  Connecticut,  New  York,  New  Jer- 
sey, Pennsylvania,  Maryland,  Delaware,  Virginia,  Kentucky, 
Ohio,  Indiana,  Missouri,  Michigan,  Illinois,  Texas,  Wisconsin, 
Iowa,  California,  Minnesota,  Oregon.  Territories — Kansas, 
Nebraska,  District  of  Columbia. 

On  motion  the  first  rule  was  adopted. 


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2d.  Four  votes  shall  be  cast  by  the  delegates  at  large  of 
each  State,  and  each  congressional  district  shall  be  entitled  to 
two  votes,  and  the  vote  of  each  delegation  shall  be  reported 
by  its  Chairman. 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota,  moved  as  an  amendment, 
that  no  delegation  should  cast  a  greater  number  of  votes  than 
there  were  delegates  in  attendance. 

Mr.  SARGENT,  of  California :  It  seems  to  me  that  the  re- 
port of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  just  adopted,  and 
which  prescribes  the  basis  of  representation  in  this  Conven- 
tion, is  in  conflict  with  the  rule  now  proposed  to  be  adopted. 
This  rule  provides  that  two  votes  shall  be  cast  from  each  con- 
gressional district.  Now,  with  reference  to  Texas  and  certain 
other  States,  the  rule  has  been  changed.  We  have  adopted 
the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  which  provides 
that  Texas  shall  have  less  votes  than  are  accorded  to  her 
by  this  rule. 

Mr.  CORWIXE:  I  think  the  gentleman  is  mistaken  in  regard 
to  the  character  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials. They  simply  report,  I  think,  the  number  of  represen- 
tatives in  attendance. 

Mr.  SARGENT  :  The  report  fixes  the  number  of  votes  to  be 
cast  by  each  congressional  district  in  the  Convention.  I  move 
a  further  amendment  by  adding  these  words,  "  provided  that 
this  rule  shall  not  conflict  with  any  rule  reported  by  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials,  and  adopted  by  the  Convention." 

Mr.  GOODRICH   accepted  the  amendment  of  Mr.  Sargent, 
and  the  amendment  of  Mr.  Goodrich  was  adopted. 
The  rule  as  amended  was  then  adopted. 

3d.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Platform  and  Resolu- 
tions shall  be  acted  upon  before  the  Convention  proceeds  to 
ballot  for  candidates  for  President  and  Vice-President. 

On  motion  the  rule  was  adopted. 


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4th.  Three  hundred  and  four  votes,  being  a  majority  of  the 
whole  number  of  votes  when  all  the  States  in  the  Union  are 
represented  in  Convention,  according  to  the  ratio  of  represen- 
tation prescribed  in  rule  two,  shall  be  required  to  nominate 
the  candidates  of  this  Convention  for  the  office  of  President 
and  Vice-President. 

VOICES:  ["No,  No!"] 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  Secretary  will  now  read  the  minority 
rule,  proposed  as  a  substitute  for  that  reported  by  the  majority 
of  the  committee. 

4th.  That  the  majority  of  the  whole  number  of  votes  rep- 
resented in  this  Convention,  according  to  the  ratio  prescribed 
by  the  second  rule,  shall  be  required  to  nominate  candidates 
for  the  offices  of  President  and  Vice-President. 

The  PRESIDENT  assigned  the  floor  to  Mr.  Kelly. 
Mr.  KELLY,  of  Pennsylvania :  [Taking  the  stand.] 

Mr.  JAMES,  of  New  York :  Am  I  not  entitled  to  the  floor, 
having  offered  the  minority  report  ? 

The  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  thinks  the  majority  has  a  right  to 
the  floor  first,  but  it  is  a  question  of  courtesy. 

Mr.  KELLY  :  As  I  appear,  Mr.  Chairman,  at  the  request  of 
a  majority  of  the  committee,  simply  to  state  the  views  which 
governed  that  committee  in  arriving  at  the  conclusion  they 
present,  I  will  cheerfully  yield  the  floor  to  the  gentleman,  and 
will  present  those  views  after  we  shall  have  heard  him. 

Mr.  JAMES  :  Go  on. 

Mr.  KELLY:  The  subject  which  now  engages  the  attention 
of  the  Convention,  was  one  of  deep  consideration  to  the  com- 
mittee. It  seemed  to  them  to  be  the  most  important  question 
that  came  within  the  range  of  their  duties.  It  is  an  impor- 
tant question  for  this  Convention  to  decide,  what  vote  shall 
nominate  the  candidates  to  be  supported  for  President  and 


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V ice-President?  In  the  first  place,  Mr.  Chairman,  the  com- 
mittee asked  what  body  had  appointed  them  to  report  upon 
that  question  ?  And  the  answer  was,  that  the  National  Re- 
publican Convention  had  appointed  them,  and  that  the  candi- 
dates were  to  be  the  candidates  of  the  National  Republican 
party.  [Great  cheers.]  And,  consequently,  that  the  number 
of  votes  upon  which  a  man  should  be  nominated  should  be  a 
majority  of  the  electoral  college — no  more  and  no  less  [Ap- 
plause] ;  so  that  if  the  charge  were  made  against  the  party  or 
its  candidates,  that  they  were  the  candidates  of  a  section,  or 
a  sectional  party,  it  could  be  said  they  had  been  nominated  by 
•delegates  representing  a  majority  of  the  electoral  colleges  ;  by 
the  same  vote,  that,  in  a  convention  where  the  majority  rule, 
and  where  the  nation  sat  in  person  through  its  representatives, 
would  have  nominated  a  candidate.  It  is  simply  a  majority 
rule  as  applied  to  the  electoral  college.  Having  passed  that 
cardinal  point,  minor,  but  very  weighty  and  important  con- 
siderations added  themselves  "to  these.  A  question  was  raised 
before  the  committee,  when  we  came  to  fix  the  order  in 
which  States  should  be  called.  When  they  had  named  the 
States  Kansas  was  not  among  them.  A  delegate  from  Ne- 
braska was  present,  and  a  list  of  members  handed  to  us  by 
the  Secretary  of  the  Convention  contained  not  only  the  names 
of  the  States,  but  Kansas  and  Nebraska  and  the  District  o 
Columbia.  So  far  as  sending  that  list  was  concerned,  the 
Convention  had  told  us  that  the  States  were  to  be  repre- 
sented— that  Nebraska  and  the  District  of  Columbia  were  to 
be  represented — as  if  they  were  constituted  States,  and  had 
an  electoral  power  behind  them.  We  knew,  Mr.  Chairman, 
that  there  were  a  few  gallant  men — brave  spirits — honored 
throughout  our  country — honored  wherever  courage  com- 
mands honor — here  from  Maryland,  from  Virginia,  and  from 
Kentucky.  We  knew  that  these  men  were  here  to  testify  to 
their  manhood,  their  appreciation  of  their  rights  under  the 
Constitution,  and  to  proclaim  to  the  free  men  of  the  North 
that  they  were  Americans,  who,  under  a  despotism  more 
dreadful  and  grasping  and  audacious  than  that  of-  Naples» 
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Austria  or  Russia — Americans,  who,  under  such  a  despotism, 
[a  voice  :  "time!"],  would  take  their  lives  in  their  hands 
and  would  go  forth  to  say,  "  we  are  free  men,  and  will  unite 
with  freemen  of  this  country  in  restoring  the  government 
to  the  line  of  the  fathers."  And  we  supposed  that  these  men 
would  all  be  admitted  to  this  Convention,  as  though  they  car- 
ried with  them  the  full  electoral  vote  of  their  States  respectively 
at- their  back.  Now,  Mr.  Chairman,  it  occurred  to  your  com- 
mittee that  it  might  so  full  out,  in  view  of  the  admission  of 
Kansas  here,  and  permit  me  to  say  that  the  humble  individual 
who  now  addresses  you  as  the  organ  of  that  committee,  when 
H  was  proposed  to  exclude  from  our  list  that  Territory  and. 
the  District  of  Columbia,  took  the  ground  that  Kansas  was  a 
State  on  the  very  ground  taken  by  the  eloquent  gentleman 
from  Maine,  that  equity  holds  that  to  have  been  which  ought 
to  have  been.  For  three  years  she  has  been  in  power  and -in 
right  a  State,  and  if  those  delegates  are  not  representing  a 
State,  it  is  by  no  reason  of  theirs,  or  their  constituents,  but 
by  reason  of  the  oppression  and  lawlessness  of  the  United 
States  Senate.  Therefore  we  hold  it  right  that  she  should  be 
here.  But  there  was  not  the  same  ground  for  Nebraska.  [A 
voice :  "  How  about  Oregon  ?  "]  Now  we  saw  that  unless 
this  rule  was  adopted  it  might  so  happen  that  our  candidate 
would  be  nominated  by  less  than  a  majority  of  this  Conven- 
tion. [Cries  of  k<  question."]  I  am  drawing  to  a  close.  Mr. 
Chairman,  I  am  not  here  in  defence  of  the  rule  proposed,  per- 
sonally. I  am  here  at  the  request  of  the  committee  to  pre- 
sent the  rules  they  instructed  me  to  present.  When  I  have 
done  that  as  briefly  as  I  can,  I  will  retire.  [Voices:  "All 
right,  go  on."]  Perceiving  that  it  was  possible,  under  the  list 
of  delegates  to  be  admitted,  that  a  candidate  might  be  nomi- 
nated who  should  not  have  a  majority  of  the  electors  who  re- 
present the  States  and  the  congressional  districts,  there  seemed 
to  be  additional  reason  why  the  rule,  in  itself  so  equitable, 
that  a  majority  of  the  whole  electoral  college  should  fix  the 
number  of  votes  required,  and  they  determined  to  submit  it 
to  the  Convention.  [A  voice  :  "  What  about  Oregon  ?  "] 


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Oregon  is  a  constituted  State,  and  there  was  no  question  about 
Oregon.  I  am  holding  no  dispute  about  her.  The  matter  is 
now  before  the  Convention,  with  the  reasons  that  governed 
the  committee  ;  and  having  done  my  duty,  I  will  give  way,  as 
I  was  ready  to  do  before  I  began.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  JAMES,  of  New  York  :  As  the  chairman  of  the  minority 
of  the  committee,  which  presented  the  minority  report,  I 
arise  for  the  purpose  of  giving  the  reasons  why  we  saw  fit  to 
present  a  minority  report  against  that  presented  by  the  ma- 
jority, and  I  don't  propose  to  entertain  you  with  any  particu- 
lar eloquence,  but  to  state  simply  the  reason.  By  the  vote 
which  has  already  passed  this  Convention,  as  to  the  number 
of  delegates  represented  upon  this  floor,  if  I  understood  the 
committee  aright,  there  are  446  voting  delegates  upon  the 
floor. 

SECRETARY  :   The  number  is  466. 

Mr.  JAMES  :  Then  there  is  a  mistake.  One  of  the  Secreta- 
ries informs  me  that  it  is  466.  I  took  the  figures  from  one  of 
the  Reporters,  who  took  it  from  the  calling  off  of  the  chair- 
man of  the  committee.  We  make  that  difference.  We  will 
call  it  the  largest  number  then,  466.  That  was  thought  to 
be  the  number  when  this  question  arose  in  the  committee* 
the  report  of  which  is  now  presented.  There  were  but  17 
members  of  that  committee  present,  10  being  absent,  and 
upon  the  sense  of  that  body  being  called  they  stood  nine  to 
eight — nine  for  the  majority  and  eight  against  it.  You  wiU 
thus  see  the  difference  between  the  two  reports.  One  is  sub- 
stantially the  "  two-thirds  rule."  If  there  are  466  votes,  31 1» 
I  believe,  is  two-thirds  of  that  vote,  and  this  rule  requires 
304.  Therefore  it  is  only  seven  short  of  the  two-thirds  rule, 
which  has  been  adopted  by  the  Democratic  party  in  the  man- 
agement of  their  Conventions.  I  am  not  aware  that  any  such 
rule  was  ever  adopted  by  any  party  in  opposition  to  that  party, 
and  I  was  not  aware  that  that  party  ever  adopted  that  rule 


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until  1S36,  and  again  in  1844,  when  it  became  necessary  for 
the  interest  and  purposes  of  slavery  that  the  minority  should 
rale  the  majority.  For  that  reason  I  am  opposed  to  that  rule. 
[A  voice  :  "  That  is  right."]  I  have  sufficient  confidence  in 
the  integrity  and  judgment  of  this  Convention  to  trust  the 
nomination  of  its  candidate  to  the  majority  of  the  delegates 
here.  [Loud  cheers.]  If  the  minority  report  is  adopted,  in- 
stead of  a  two-thirds  vote,  the  result  will  be  left  to  the  wis- 
dom and  patriotism  of  a  majority  of  the  Convention. 

Loud  calls  of  "  question  "  were  made,  amid  which  several 
speakers  attempted  to  get  the  floor. 

A  delegate  from  Michigan  stated  that  some  of  the  States 
had  double  delegations  present,  and  in  a  viva  vocc  vote  would 
give  double  the  number  of  votes  they  were  entitled  to. 

He  moved  that  the  vote  be  taken  by  States. 

Mr.  MANN,  of  Pennsylvania :  I  desire  to  call  the  attention 
of  this  Convention  to  this  new  rule  introduced  here.  I  come 
here  from  a  land  where  we  acquiesce  in  the  will  of  the  ma- 
jority [Applause],  on  all  occasions  wherever  men  are  invited 
together  to  deliberate.  I  know  nowhere  in  a  Republican 
country  where  men  are  entitled  to  vote  by  proxy.  I  do  con- 
ceive that  to  adopt  any  such  rule  here  would  be  destructive 
of  its  character;  it  would  be  considered  as  aimed  at  the 
aspirations  of  an  individual,  and  if  an  individual  cannot  be 
struck  down  in  this  broad  country  without  doing  a  wrong,  I 
should  be  the  last  on  God's  earth  to  do  it.  These  are  my 
sentiments,  and  the  sentiments  of  the  truly  loyal  hearts  around 
me  in  Pennsylvania  [applause],  and  when  I  barely  announce 
them  I  shall  trouble  this  Convention  no  further. 

The  roll  of  the  States  was  then  called  on  the  motion  to 
substitute  the  minority  rule  for  the  majority,  CLEVELAND,  of 
Connecticut,  having  taken  the  chair. 


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STATES.  AYES.              NOES. 

Maine, 1 10 

New  Hampshire, 10 

Vermont, 10 

Massachusetts, 22               3 

Ehode  Island,. 4  •            4 

Connecticut, 8               4 

New  York, 70 

New  Jersey, 12               1 

Pennsylvania, 33  £           20£ 

Maryland, 5               6 

Delaware, 6 

Virginia, 13               8 

Kentucky, 10               9 

Ohio,   32               9 

Indiana, 1             25 

Missouri, IS 

Illinois, 15               7 

Texas, 6 

Wisconsin, 10 

Iowa, 5               3 

California, 8 

Minnesota, 8 

Oregon,  .....* 3               1 

TERRITORIES. 

Kansas, 6 

Nebraska, 6 

District  of  Columbia, 2 


So  that  the  rule  as  reported  by  the  majority  was  amended 
by  substituting  the  rule  reported  by  the  minority. 

The  Pennsylvania  delegation  having  failed  to  respond  on 
the  third  call,  owing  to  the  vote  of  the  delegation  not  being 
ascertained,  Mr.  Goodrich,  of  Minnesota,  moved  that  the 
representatives  of  the  People's  party  of  Pennsylvania  be 
excused  from  voting  upon  their  own  proposition.  [Hisses 
and  confusion.] 


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Mr.  REEDER  :  Pennsylvania  could  not  vote  without  retiring 
to  another  room  to  consult  her  large  delegation.  Did  I 
understand  a  gentleman  just  now  to  intimate  that  Pennsyl- 
vania was  not  entitled  to  a  vote  upon  this  floor  ?  If  I  did,  I 
should  be  glad  to  know  who  he  is,  and  where  he  comes  from. 
[Immense  applause,  and  cries  of  "  Goodrich."] 

Mr.  GOODRICH  :  I  rise,  Mr.  President — [Cries  of  "Sit 
down,"  and  hisses.]  I  will — 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Gentlemen  do  not  forget  yourselves. 
You  must  keep  order. 

Mr.  GOODRICH:  Mr.  President — [Cries  of  "Sit  down," 
and  hisses.]  I  will  not  set  down.  (Confusion.) 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  gentleman  upon  my  right  is  desirous 
of  explaining  to  the  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania,  so  that 
there  may  be  no  ill  blood  in  the  Convention,  even  for  a 
moment.  Will  you  allow  him  to  do  it  ?  Let  us  act,  gentle- 
men, in  a  friendly  spirit,  and  if  men  make  remarks  that  are 
not  exactly  correct,  let  them  be  forgotten  on  the  moment.  I 
would  say  to  the  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania,  that  the 
expression  of  the  gentleman  [Mr.  Goodrich]  was  promptly 
rebuked  by  the  chair. 

Mr.  GOODRICH  :  I  wish  to  state  to  the  gentleman  who 
desired  to  know  who  it  was  that  had  suggested  that  Penn- 
sylvania had  not  a  right  here.  I  propose  to  respond  to  that 
interrogatory.  •  I  made  no  such  remark.  [Cheers,  and  cries 
of  "  Order."]  When  the  roll  was  called,  Pennsylvania  was 
called  for  a  third  time,  when  a  gentleman  answered,  who  I 
suppose  was  speaking  authoritatively  for  Pennsylvania,  that 
she  abandoned  her  proposition,  the  majority  report,  and 
then,  as  an  act  of  humanity,  I  moved  that  she  be  excused 
from  expressing  her  opinion.  [Laughter,  and  cries  of  "  Sit 
down."] 


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5th.  The  rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives  shall  con- 
tinue to  be  the  rules  of  this  Convention,  in  so  far  as  they  are 
applicable  and  not  inconsistent  with  the  foregoing  rules. 

The  5th  rule  was  adopted,  and  on  motion,  the  report  of 
the  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business,  as  amended, 
was  adopted. 

The  report  as  amended  was  then  adopted. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  chair  is  informed  that  the  Committee 
on  Resolutions  and  Platform  is  ready  to  report.  [Immense 
applause.] 

Judge  JESSUP,  of  Pennsylvania :  The  Committee  on  Plat- 
form and  Resolutions  have  directed  me  to  say  to  the  Conven- 
tion, that  these  resolutions  have  been  adopted  with  great 
unanimity,  there  being  upon  one  or  two  of  the  resolutions  some 
dissenting  voices  on  the  committee.  The  greater  portion  of 
the  resolutions  were  adopted  with  entire  unanimity  in  the 
committee. 

THE  PLATFORM. 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  delegated  representatives  of  the 
Republican  electors  of  the  United  States,  in  Convention 
assembled,  in  discharge  of  the  duty  we  owe  to  our  constitu- 
ents and  our  country,  unite  in  the  following  declarations: 

1.  That  the  history  of  the  nation  during  the  last  four  years, 
has  fully  established  the  propriety  and  necessity  of  the  organ- 
ization and  perpetuation  of  the  Republican  party,  and  that 
the  causes  which  called  it  into  existence  are  permanent  in 
their  nature,  and   now,  more  than  ever  before,  demand  its 
peaceful  and  constitutional  triumph. 

2.  That  the  maintenance  of  the  principles  promulgated  in 
the    Declaration   of    Independence,   and   embodied    in    the 
Federal  Constitution,  is  essential  to  the  preservation  of  our 
republican  institutions ;  and  that  the  Federal  Constitution, 
the  rights  of  the  states,  and  the  union  of  the  states  must  and 
shall  be  preserved.  [Applause.] 

3.  That  to  the  union  of  the  States' this  nation  owes  its  un- 
precedented increase  in  population,  its  surprising  development 


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of  material  resources,  its  rapid  augmentation  of  wealth,  its 
happiness  at  home  and  its  honor  abroad ;  and  we  hold  in 
abhorrence  all  schemes  for  disunion,  come  from  whatever 
source  they  may  ;  and  we  congratulate  the  country,  that  no 
Republican  member  of  Congress  has  uttered  or  countenanced 
the  threats  of  disunion,  so  often  made  by  Democratic  mem- 
bers, without  rebuke  and  with  applause  from  their  political 
associates  ;  and  we  denounce  those  threats  of  disunion,  in 
case  of  a  popular  overthrow  of  their  ascendancy,  as  denying 
the  vital  principles  of  a  free  government,  and  as  an  avowal 
of  contemplated  treason,  which  it  is  the  imperative  duty  of 
an  indignant  people  sternly  to  rebuke  and  forever  silence. 

4.  That   the  maintenance  inviolate  of  the  rights  of  the 
states,  and  especially  the  right  of  each  state  to  order  and 
control  its  own  domestic  institutions,  according  to  its  own 
judgment  exclusively,  is  essential  to  that  balance  of  power  on 
which  the  perfection  and  endurance  of  our  political   fabric 
depends  ;  and  we  denounce  the  lawless  invasion,  by  armed 
force,  of  the  soil  of  any  state  or  territory,  no  matter  under 
what  pretext,  as  among  the  gravest  of  crimes. 

5.  That   the   present   Democratic   administration    has   far 
exceeded  our  worst  apprehensions,  in  its  measureless  sub- 
serviency to  the  exactions  of  a  sectional  interest,  as  especially 
evinced  in  its  desperate  exertions  to  force  the  infamous  Le- 
compton  Constitution  upon  the  protesting  people  of  Kansas  : 
in  construing  the  personal  relation  between  master  and  servant 
to  involve   an  unqualified  property  in  persons ;   in   its   at- 
tempted enforcement,  everywhere,  on  land  and  sea,  through 
the  intervention  of  Congress,  and  of  the  federal  courts,  of  the 
extreme  pretensions  of  a  purely  local  interest,  and   in   its 
general  and  unvarying  abuse  of  the  power  entrusted  to  it  by 
a  confiding  people. 

6.  That  the  people  justly  view  with  alarm   the  reckless 
extravagance  which  pervades  every  department  of  the  federal 
government ;  that  a  return  to  rigid  economy  and  accounta- 
bility is  indispensable  to  arrest  the  systematic  plunder  of  the 
public  treasury  by  favored  partisans ;  while  the  recent  start- 


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ling  developments  of  frauds  and  corruptions  at  the  federal 
metropolis,  show  that  an  entire  change  of  administration  is 
imperatively  demanded. 

7.  That  the  new  dogma,  that  the  Constitution  of  its  own 
force  carries  slavery  into  any  or  all  of  the  territories  of  the 
United   States,  is  a  dangerous  political   heresy,  at  variance 
with  the  explicit  provisions  of  that  instrument  itself,  with 
cotemporaneous  exposition,  and  with  legislative  and  judicial 
precedent;  is  revolutionary  in  its  tendency,  and  subversive  of 
the  peace  and  harmony  of  the  country. 

8.  That  the  normal  condition  of  all  the  territory  of  the 
United  States  is  that  of  freedom.     That  as  our  Republican 
fathers,  when  they  had  abolished  slavery  in  all  our  national 
territory,  ordained  that  "  no  person  should  be  deprived  of  life, 
liberty  or  property,  without  due  process  of  law,"  it  becomes 
our  duty  by  legislation,  whenever  such  legislation  is  necessary, 
to  maintain  this  provision  of  the  Constitution  against  all  at- 
tempts to  violate  it ;   and   we  deny  the  authority  of  Con- 
gress, of  a  territorial  legislature,  or  of  any  individuals,  to  give 
legal   existence  to   slavery  in   any  territory  of  the   United 
States. 

9.  That  we  brand  the  recent  re-opening  of  the  African 
slave  trade,  under  the  cover  of  our  national  flag,  aided  by 
perversions  of  judicial  power,  as  a  crime  against  humanity 
and  a  burning  shame  to  our  country  and  age ;  and  we  call 
upon  Congress  to  take  prompt  and  efficient  measures  for  the 
total  and  final  suppression  of  that  execrable  traffic. 

10.  That  in  the  recent  vetoes,  by  their  federal  governors, 
of  the   acts   of  the   legislatures   of  Kansas   and   Nebraska, 
prohibiting  slavery  in  those  territories,  we  find  a  practical 
illustration  of  the  boasted  Democratic  principle  of  non-inter- 
vention  and  popular  sovereignty  embodied   in  the  Kansas- 
Nebraska   bill,  and   a  demonstration  of  the  deception  and 
fraud  involved  therein. 

11.  That  Kansas  should  of  right,  be  immediately  admitted 
as   a    state,   under   the    Constitution    recently  formed   and 

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adopted  by  her  people,  and  accepted  by  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives. 

12.  That  while  providing  revenue  for  the  support  of  the 
general  government  by  duties    upon  imports,   sound  policy 
requires  such  an  adjustment  of  these  imposts,  as  to  encourage 
the  development   of  the  industrial   interests  of  the    whole 
country  ;  and  we  commend  that  policy  of  national  exchanges, 
which  secures  to  the  working  men  liberal  wages,  to  agricul- 
ture remunerating  prices,  to  mechanics  and  manufacturers  an 
adequate  reward  for  their  skill,  labor  and  enterprise,  and  to 
the  nation  commercial  prosperity  and  independence. 

13.  That   we   protest    against   any  sale   or   alienation    to 
others  of  the  public  lands  held  by  actual  settlers,  and  against 
any  view  of  the  free  homestead  policy,  which  regards  the 
settlers  as  paupers  or  suppliants  for  public  bounty ;  and  we 
demand  the  passage,  by  Congress,  of  the  complete  and  satisfac- 
tory homestead  measure  which  has  already  passed  the  House. 

14.  That  the  Republican  party  is  opposed  to  any  change 
in  our  naturalization  laws,  or  any  state  legislation  by  which 
the  rights  of  citizenship  hitherto  accorded  to  immigrants  from 
foreign  lands  shall  be  abridged  or  impaired ;  and  in  favor  of 
giving  a  full    and  efficient   protection  to  the   rights  of  all 
classes   of  citizens,  whether  native   or  naturalized,  both   at 
home  and  abroad. 

15.  That  appropriations  by  Congress,  for  river  and  harbor 
improvements  of  a  national  character,  required  for  the  accom- 
modation and  security  of  an  existing  commerce,  are  autho- 
rized by  the  Constitution,  and  justified  by  the  obligation  of 
government  to  protect  the  lives  and  property  of  its  citizens. 

16.  That  a  railroad   to  the  Pacific  ocean  is  imperatively 
demanded  by  the  interests  of  the  whole  country ;  that  the 
federal  government  ought  to  render  immediate  and  efficient 
aid  in  its  construction  ;  and  that  as  preliminary  thereto,  a 
daily  overland  mail  should  be  promptly  established. 

17.  Finally,  having  thus  set  forth  our  distinctive  principles 
and  views,  we  invite  the  co-operation  of  all  citizens,  however 


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differing  on  other  questions,  who  substantially  agree  with  us 
in  their  affirmance  and  support. 

Mr.  CARTER  :  Mr.  Chairman — That  report  is  so  eminently 
unexceptionable  from  beginning  to  end,  and  so  eloquently 
carries  through  with  it  its  own  vindication,  that  I  do  not 
believe  the  Convention  will  desire  discussion  upon  it,  and  I 
therefore  call  the  previous  question  on  it.  [Applause,  and 
mingled  cries  of  "Good,  good,"  and  "No,  no."] 

Mr.  GIDDIXGS,  of  Ohio  :  I  rise,  sir,  solemnly  to  appeal  to 
my  friend — [Great  confusion  ;  cries  of  "  Withdraw  the  pre- 
vious question."  A  Voice:  "Nobody  wants  to  speak,  but 
we  don't  want  to  be  choked  off,"  &c.] 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  insist  upon  the  previous  question. 

Mr.  GIDDIXGS  :  I  rise,  and  I  believe  I  have  the  right,  with 
the  leave  of  my  colleague,  to  offer  a  short  amendment  before 
the  previous  question  is  called. 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  did  it  to  cut  you  off,  and  all  other  amend- 
ments, and  all  discussion.  [Great  confusion,  and  cries  of 
"  Giddings, "  by  the  audience.] 

A  DELEGATE  at  the  south  end  of  the  platform :  The  reso- 
lutions have  not  been  distributed  among  the  members  yet, 
and  will  the  gentleman  ask  us  to  vote  upon  a  party  platform 
we  have  not  seen  ? 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  insist  upon  the  previous  question.  They 
can  read  it  by  copy.  It's  printed. 

Mr.  GIDDINGS  :  Would  it  be  in  order  for  me  to  say  that  I 
request  my  friend  to  withdraw  the  previous  question,  that  I 
may  offer  an  amendment  ? 

A  DELEGATE  from  Maine  :  I  rise  to  a  point  of  order.  Is 
the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Ohio  seconded  ?  ["  Yes, 
yes,  yes."] 


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Mr.  ANDREW,  of  Massachusetts  :  I  rise  to  a  point  of  order. 
The  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Ohio  is  not  in  order,  for 
the  reason  that  this  Convention  have  already  passed  a  rule 
that  the  Committee  on  Platform  and  Resolutions  shall  make 
their  report  in  print,  and  that  printed  report  has  not  been 
received  by  this  Convention. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  We  will  have  that  resolution  read. 
Mr.  CARTER  :  There  is  no  such  rule. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Will  gentlemen  give  their  attention  ? 
The  Chair  will  state  the  position  of  the  question.  The  Com- 
mittee on  Platform  and  Resolutions  have  presented  a  report 
which  has  been  read  by  the  chairman.  Upon  the  question  of 
acceptance  of  that  report,  Mr.  Carter,  of  Ohio,  demands  the 
previous  question.  Pending  that  demand,  Mr.  Andrew,  of 
Massachusetts,  raises  a  question  of  order  that  it  is  not  in  order 
to  demand  the  previous  question,  because  the  Convention  has 
adopted  a  standing  rule  that  before  acting  upon  that  report, 
the  report  should  be  printed  and  presented  to  the  Convention. 
Upon  examining  the  record,  the  Chair  rules  that  there  is  no 
such  rule.  It  was  an  independent  motion  made  by  Mr.  Kauf- 
mann,  of  Pennsylvania. 

Much  confusion  was  here  caused  by  the  anxiety  of  delegates 
and  the  crowd  in  the  wigwam  to  obtain  copies  of  the  platform t 
which  by  this  time  had  been  brought  into  the  hall  and  were 
being  distributed. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  question  is  on  the  demand  of  Mr. 
Carter  for  the  previous  question. 

Mr.  TRACY,  of  California:  I  hope,  as  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Resolutions  and  Platform,  and  as  one  of  the  sub- 
committee that  drafted  these  resolutions,  that  the  previous 
question  will  not  be  sustained. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  It  certainly  is  not  a  debatable  matter. 

Mr.  TRACY  :  I  know  it  is  not  debatable,  I  only  expressed 
a  hope. 


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Mr.  GIDDINGS  :  I  desire  my  colleague  to  withdraw  the  call 
for  the  previous  question. 

Mr.  CARTER  :  It  has  got  to  be  voted  down  or  it  has  to  be 
voted  up. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Is  there  a  second  for  the  call  of  the  pre- 
vious question  ? 

VOICES:  "Yes." 

Motion  for  the  previous  question  was  submitted  and  de- 
clared to  be  lost. 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  call  for  a  division  on  that  question  and  a 
vote  by  States. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  It  was  voted  down  3  to  1. 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  don't  understand  it  so.   I  call  for  a  division. 

A  DELEGATE  :  I  rise  to  a  point  of  order.     It  is  too  late  to 
call  for  a  division  after  the  question  is  decided. 

Mr.  CARTER  :  It  is  not.     You  can't  call  for  it  before. 

The  PRESIDENT  then  submitted  the  question.     The  roll  of 
States^was  called  with  the  following  result : 

STATES.  ATES-  NOES. 

Maine, 1             14 

New  Hampshire, 10 

Vermont, 10 

Massachusetts, 4            21 

Rhode  Island, 8 

Connecticut,    1             11 

New  York, 25            45 

New  Jersey, 

Pennsylvania, 

Maryland, 11 

Delaware,   4 

Virginia, 17               6 

Kentucky,   10            10 


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STATES.  AYES,  NOES. 

Ohio, 24             18 

Indiana, 20               6 

Missouri, 18 

Michigan, 8               4 

Illinois, 14               8 

Texas 6 

Wisconsin, 8               2 

Iowa, 2               6 

California, 8 

Minnesota, 8 

Oregon, 2               2 

TERRITORIES. 

Kansas, 6 

Nebraska, 2  4 

District  of  Columbia, 2 

155  301 

California  being  called, 

Mr.  TRACT  :  California  believes  in  free  speech  and  free  men, 
and  votes  8  against  the  previous  question. 

Ohio  being  called, 

Mr.  CARTER  :  Coming  from  Ohio,  a  State  where  free  speech 
is  not  allowed,  she  votes  24  ayes  and  18  nays. 

The  PRESIDENT  announced  the  previous  question  not  sus- 
tained. 

Mr.  GriDDiNGS,  of  Ohio,  took  the  floor. 

Grov.  REEDER  :  I  ask  the  gentleman  if  he  will  give  way 
while  we  take  up  these  resolutions  singly  ? 

VOICES  :  "  No,  no." 

Mr.  GriDDiNGS  :  Mr.  President,  I  propose  to  offer,  after  the 
first  resolution  as  it  stands  here,  as  a  declaration  of  principles, 
the  following : 

"  That  we  solemnly  re-assert  the  self-evident  truths  that 
all  men  are  endowed  by  their  Creator  with  certain  inalienable 


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rights,  among  which  are  those  of  life,  liberty  and  the  pursuit 
of  happiness  [Cheers] ;  that  governments  are  instituted  among 
men  to  secure  the  enjoyment  of  these  rights." 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio,  [Interrupting]  :  Mr.  President,  I — 

Mr.  GriDDiNGS :  My  colleague  will  ask  no  favors  of  me,  I 
take  it.  [Applause.]  I  will  detain  the  Convention  but  a 
moment.  Two  hundred  years  ago  the  philosophers  of  Europe 
declared  to  the  world  that  human  governments  were  based 
upon  human  rights,  and  all  Christian  writers  have  sustained 
that  doctrine  until  the  meeting  of  this  Convention.  Our 
fathers  were  impressed  with  this  all-permeating  truth,  that 
right  of  every  human  being  to  live  and  enjoy  that  liberty* 
which  enables  him  to  obtain  knowledge  and  pursue  happiness, 
and  no  man  has  the  power  to  withhold  it  from  him.  [Pro- 
longed cheers.]  Our  fathers,  impressed  with  this  solemn 
truth,  laid  it  down  as  the  chief  corner  stone,  the  basis  upon 
which  this  Federal  Government  was  founded.  By  consent  of 
all  parties,  the  Supreme  Court  included,  these  were  the  per- 
meating, life-giving,  vitalizing  principles  of  the  Constitution. 
It  is  because  these  principles  have  been  overturned,  denied 
and  prostrated  by  our  opponents,  that  we  now  exist  as  a  party. 
[Cheers.]  At  Philadelphia  we  proposed  and  propounded  this 
issue  to  our  opponents.  We  called  on  them  to  meet  it. 
They  have  not  met  it.  They  put  forward  the  Supreme  Court 
to  meet  it.  That  court  denied  those  principles,  but  the  Dem- 
ocratic party  to  this  day  dare  not  meet  them ;  and  through 
the  campaign,  and  for  four  years,  no  Democrat  has  stood 
before  the  world  denying  that  truth,  nor  will  they  deny  them. 
Now  I  propose  to  maintain  the  doctrines  of  our  fathers.  I 
propose  to  maintain  the  fundamental  and  primal  issues  upon 
which  the  government  was  founded.  I  will  detain  this  Con- 
vention no  longer.  I  offer  this  because  our  party  was  formed 
upon  it.  It  grew  upon  it.  It  has  existed  upon  it,  and  when 
you  leave  out  this  truth  you  leave  out  the  party.  [Loud 
cheers.] 


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Mr.  CARTER  :  After  this  display  of  argument,  I  call  for  the 
reading  of  clause  second  in  the  report  of  committee. 

Mr.  LOWRY,  of  Pennsylvania :  I  rise  to  a  question  of  order. 
We  have  upon  our  journal  a  resolution  that  all  matters  that 
come  up  by  resolution,  should  be  referred  to  the  committee 
appointed  for  that  purpose,  without  debate.  I  therefore  call 
upon  the  President  of  this  Convention  now  to  enforce  this 
rule. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  Chair  is  of  the  opinion  that  this  pro- 
position does  not  come  within  the  principle  of  the  rule  that 
the  gentleman  alludes  to. 

Mr.  LOWRY  :  Then,  Mr.  President — 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  wish  simply  to  read  in  reply  to  this — 

Mr.  LOWRY  :  Mr.  President,  I  move  that  the  report  of  the 
committee  as  prepared  and  presented  be  adopted. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  gentleman  is  out  of  order.  He  has 
not  got  the  floor. 

Mr.  CARTER  :  The  only  reply  I  wish  to  make  on  this 
amendment  and  the  gas  expended  on  it,  is  in  the  second  clause 
of  the  report,  which  reads  as  follows  :  "  That  the  maintenance 
of  the  principles  promulgated  in  the  Declaration  of  Indepen- 
dence, and  embodied  in  the  Federal  Constitution,  is  essential 
to  the  preservation  of  our  Republican  institutions ;  and  that 
the  Federal  Constitution,  the  rights  of  the  States,  and  the 
Union  of  the  States,  must  and  shall  be  preserved." 

Mr.  THAYER,  of  Oregon  :  I  agree  with  the  venerable  dele- 
gate from  Ohio,  Mr.  Giddings,  in  all  that  he  has  affirmed  to 
this  Convention,  concerning  the  principles  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence.  There  are  also  many  other  truths  that  are 
enunciated  in  that  Declaration  of  Independence — truths  of 
science — truths  of  physical  science,  of  mental  and  moral 
science — truths  of  government,  and  great  religious  truths; 
but  it  is  not  the  business,  I  think,  of  this  Convention,  at  least 


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it  is  not  the  purpose  of  the  Republican  party,  to  embrace  in 
its  platform  all  the  truths  that  the  world  in  all  its  past  history 
has  recognized.  [Applause.]  Mr.  President,  I  believe  in  the 
ten  commandments,  but  I  do  not  want  them  in  a  political 
platform. 

Mr.  TRACY,  of  California :  I  move  that  the  resolution  be 
referred  to  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  and  Platform. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  motion  is  out  of  order. 

Mr.  STONE,  of  Iowa:  I  move  that  the  amendment  offered 
by  the  gentleman  from  Ohio  be  laid  upon  the  table. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  That  is  out  of  order.  It  will  take  the 
whole  with  it.  The  question  must  be  on  the  adoption  of  the 
amendment. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Giddings  to  amend  was  put  to  vote  and 
lost. 

Mr.  WILMOT,  of  Pennsylvania :  I  move  that  the  platform 
be  adopted  by  sections.  [Cries  of  "no,"  and  "take  them  in 
a  lot,"  &c.]  I  have  an  amendment  to  offer,  which  I  believe 
will  commend  itself  to  the  good  sense  of  every  gentleman 
here.  The  amendment  is  this,  in  the  14th  section  we  say, 
"  that  the  Republican  party  is  opposed  to  any  change  in  our 
naturalization  laws,  or  any  State  legislation  by  which  the  rights 
of  citizenship,  hitherto  accorded  to  immigrants  -from  foreign 
lands,  shall  be  abridged  or  impaired  ;  and  in  favor  of  giving  a 
full  and  efficient  protection  to  the  rights  of  all  classes  of  citi- 
zens, whether  native  or  naturalized,  both  at  home  and  abroad." 
My  amendment  is  to  strike  out  the  words  "  State  legislation," 
because  it  conflicts  directly  with  the  doctrine  in  the  4th  sec- 
tion, which  reads  thus : 

"  That  the  maintenance  inviolate  of  the  rights  of  the  States, 
and  especially  the  right  of  each  State  to  order  and  control  its 
own  domestic  institutions  according  to  its  own  judgment, 
exclusively,  is  essential  to  that  balance  of  power  on  which 
the  perfection  and  endurance  of  our  political  fabric  depends ; 
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and  we  denounce  the  lawless  invasion,  by  armed  force,  of  the 
soil  of  any  State  or  Territory,  no  matter  under  what  pretext, 
as  among  the  gravest  of  crimes." 

The  section  would  then  read  :  "  That  the  Republican  party 
is  opposed  to  any  change  in  our  naturalization  laws,  by  which 
the  rights  of  citizenship  hitherto  accorded  to  immigrants  from 
foreign  lands  shall  be  abridged  or  impaired." 

Judge  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota  :  I  desire  to  say  one  word 
touching  the  proposed  amendment  by  the  gentleman  from 
Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Wilmot.  It  is  this.  He  asked  to  strike 
out  a  certain  portion  of  the  resolution  now  under  considera- 
tion, for  the  reason,  as  he  alleges,  that  it  conflicts  with  State 
rights.  1  here  say  to  the  gentleman,  and  to  this  Convention? 
that  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  or  any  other  State  in  this  con- 
federacy, possesses  not  a  particle  of  right — a  particle  of  power 
under  the  Constitution  to  enact  or  modify  any  naturalization 
law.  The  Constitution  says  that  "  Congress  shall  have  power 
to  pass  a  uniform  rule  of  naturalization  ;  "  and  the  Supreme 
Court  have  declared  on  solemn  adjudication  that  no  State 
legislature  possesses  the  power,  in  any  manner  whatever,  to 
modify,  infract  or  repeal  the  constitutional  action  of  the  fede- 
ral legislation  upon  that  subject.  I  hope  then  that  the  gen- 
man  will  withdraw  his  motion  to  amend. 

Judge  JESSUP,  of  Pennsylvania,  the  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Platform  :  The  reason  why  these  words  were  inser- 
ted in  that  resolution,  I  will  state.  I  desire  briefly  to  state 
to  the  Convention  that  the  naturalization  laws  are  producing 
a  state  of  deep  feeling  among  a  large  number  of  the  Republi- 
can party.  A  great  many  Republicans  are  of  foreign  birth, 
and  they  have  felt  that  it  was  due  to  them  that  the  Republi- 
can party  should  affirm,  first,  that  they  do  not  desire  to  inter- 
fere with  the  present  existing  naturalization  laws  ;  secondly, 
that  they  as  a  party  do  not  approve  of  the  change  of  the 
naturalization  laws  by  the  several  States,  and  that  they  do  not 
approve  of  that  legislation  which  goes  to  impair  the  rights 
which  the  naturalization  laws  of  the  Union  give  to  natural- 


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ized  citizens.  That,  Mr.  President,  was  what  was  intended 
by  the  words  which  are  now  proposed  to  be  stricken  out.  I 
state,  therefore,  that  it  is  not  proposed  to  interfere  with  State 
rights.  It  is  not  proposed,  nor  does  it  in  the  least  conflict 
with  any  principle,  if  it  be  looked  at  properly,  before  estab- 
lished in  these  resolutions.  It  simply  affirms  that  the  Repub- 
lican party  is  "opposed  to  any  change  in  the  naturalization 
laws,  or  any  legislation — State  legislation — by  which  the 
rights  of  citizens,  hitherto  afforded  to  emigrants  from  foreign 
lands,  shall  be  abridged  or  impaired."  Now  I  wish  to  know 
if  my  colleague  from  Pennsylvania  affirms  that  he  is  ready  to 
permit,  with  his  consent,  the  State  legislatures  to  impair  the 
rights  that  are  guaranteed,  under  our  laws,  to  emigrants  be- 
coming citizens.  I  think  it  is  a  misapprehension  on  the  part 
of  my  colleague,  of  the  true  intent  and  import  of  this  resolu- 
tion. I  trust  if  he  looks  at  it  again,  he  will  withdraw  his 
amendment. 

Mr.  WILMOT,  of  Pennsylvania:  I  do  not  know  but  I  misap- 
prehend this  clause.  The  declaration  here  reads  thus  : 

"  That  the  Republican  party  is  opposed  to  any  change  in 
our  naturalization  laws,  by  which  the  rights  of  citizenship 
hitherto  afforded  to  emigrants  from  foreign  lands,  shall  be 
abridged  or  impaired." 

Now,  my  amendment  was  to  strike  out  "  or  any  State  legis- 
lation." My  idea  was  this  (and  you  may  judge  whether  I 
was  correct  or  not),  that  it  conflicted  with  the  fourth  resolu- 
tion which  declares : 

"  That  the  maintaining  inviolate  of  the  rights  of  the  States, 
especially  of  each  State,  to  order  and  control  its  own  domes- 
tic institutions  according  to  its  own  judgment  exclusively  is 
essential  to  that  balance  of  power,"  &c. 

That  is  a  broad  declaration  of  State  rights — a  just  declara- 
tion of  State  rights ;  and  under  that,  if  any  State  in  this 
Union  has  a  perfect  power  to  prescribe  the  qualifications  of 
voters,  Pennsylvania,  Massachusetts,  or  any  other  State  may, 
to-morrow,  if  it  sees  fit,  by  a  change  of  her  constitution,  not 


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only  impair  the  right  of  foreign  citizens,  but  may  modify  and 
impair  the  rights  invested  in  native  born  citizens.  She  may 
change  her  constitution  and  provide  that  a  residence  of  two 
years  shall  be  required  to  entitle  a  man  to  vote.  That  was 
the  old  constitution  of  Pennsylvania.  Pennsylvania  may  go 
back ;  she  may  require  that  any  person  coming  from  a  foreign 
land,  or  from  another  State,  shall  not  vote  until  he  has  been 
a  resident  two  years ;  and  on  the  doctrine  of  State  rights  has 
she  not  a  right  to  do  it — and  who  has  a  right  to  complain  ? 
But  as  there  seems  to  be  a  doubt  or  misunderstanding — and 
it  has  been  explained  to  me  here  that  they  do  not  controvert 
the  right  of  the  State  thus  to  modify  the  rights  of  foreign  or  na- 
tive citizens,  but  merely  wish  to  make  the  declaration  that 
the  Republican  party,  as  a  party,  is  opposed  to  it,  as  that  is 
the  object  I  agree  to  it,  and  in  that  view  I  am  willing  to 
withdraw  my  amendment.  [Loud  cheers.] 

Mr.  CARL  SCHURZ,  of  Wisconsin  :  As  the  amendment  is 
withdrawn  by  the  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania,  I  find  it 
hardly  necessary  to  address  the  Convention  upon  this  subject. 
I  wish  that  this  resolution  would  be  passed  without  opposi- 
tion. The  German  Republicans  of  the  Northern  States  have 
given  you  300,000  votes  [Applause],  and  I  wish  that  they 
should  find  it  consistent  with  their  honor  and  their  safety  to 
give  you  300,000  more.  [Increased  applause.]  A  paragraph 
like  this  would  never  have  been  asked  for  by  the  German 
Republicans  if  one  occurrence  had  not  taken  place.  The 
year  of  1S56  was  the  era  of  good  feelings — we  all  joined 
together  in  a  common  cause,  and  we  all  fought  the  common 
enemy.  We  did  so  with  honor  to  ourselves,  and  with  confi- 
dence in  each  other.  There  was  no  German  Republican,  I 
believe,  who  would  have  asked  for  anything  more  in  the 
Philadelphia  platform  but  the  resolution  which  is  there.  But, 
since  it  has  been  found  that  that  resolution  is  not  sufficient  to 
protect  them  from  infringement  upon  their  rights  in  the 
States,  I  will  tell  you  how  they  reason.  They  said  our  rights 
may  be  guaranteed  to  us  in  a  national  platform  by  a  general 


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sentence,  and  nevertheless  the  legislatures  of  the  different 
States  may  defeat  the  very  purpose  for  which  that  national 
platform  was  enacted.  Of  what  use,  then,  is  a  plank  in  a 
platform  if  its  purpose  thus  can  be  frustrated  by  an  action  of 
a  State  legislature  ?  It  has  been  very  well  said  that  it  was 
not  the  purpose  of  this  resolution  to  declare  that  no  State  has 
the  right  to  regulate  the  suffrage  of  its  citizens  by  legisla- 
tive enactment,  but  it  was  the  purpose  to  declare  that  the 
Republican  party,  in  its  national  capacity,  is  opposed  to  any 
such  thing  in  principle,  and  as  such  condemns  it.  [Renewed 
applause.]  Gentlemen,  the  question  is  simply  this,  on  one 
side  there  stands  prejudice,  on  the  other  side  there  stands 
right. 

You  go  to  calculate,  will  prejudice  give  us  more  votes  or 
will  right  give  us  more  votes.  [Applause  continued.]  Let 
me  tell  you  one  thing,  that  the  votes  you  get  by  truckling  to 
the  prejudices  of  people  will  never  be  safe  ;  while  those  votes 
which  you  get  by  recognizing  constitutional  rights  may  every 
time  be  counted  upon.  [Immense  applause.]  Why,  gentle- 
men, the  German  Republicans  of  the  Northern  States  have 
been  not  only  among  the  most  faithful,  but  we  have  been 
among  the  most  unselfish  members  of  the  Republican  party. 
We  never  come  to  you  asking  for  any  favors  ;  we  never  come 
to  you  with  any  pretensions,  the  only  thing  we  ask  of  you  is 
this  :  that  we  shall  be  permitted  to  fight  for  our  common 
cause ;  that  we  shall  be  permitted  to  fight  in  your  ranks  with 
confidence  in  your  principles  and  with  honor  to  ourselves. 
[Great  cheering.] 

Mr.  FREDRICK  HASSAUREK,  of  Ohio ;  [Applause] — Gen- 
tlemen of  the  Convention,  I  am  not  going  to  detain  you  for 
any  length  of  time  in  support  of  the  motion  now  before  the 
Convention,  but  I  am  in  favor,  gentlemen,  of  the  adoption  of 
this  resolution  ;  not  because  I  am  an  adopted  citizen,  but  be- 
cause I  claim  to  be  a  true  American.  [Cheers.]  Gentlemen, 
I  claim  to  be  an  American,  although  I  happened  to  be  born 
on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic  ocean.  [Renewed  applause.] 


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I  hailed  true  Americanism  before  my  foot  had  ever  stepped 
on  American  soil.  [Applause.]  I  loved  this  country  before 
my  eyes  had  ever  beheld  its  hospitable  shores.  I  had  sworn 
allegiance  to  the  spirit  of  its  free  institutions  years  before  I 
made  the  formal  declarations  of  loyalty.  [Enthusiastic  cheers.] 
Gentlemen,  I  felt  the  spirit  of  true  Americanism  thrill  my 
heart  when,  as  a  boy  in  school,  I  first  read  of  the  heroic  deeds 
of  the  immortal  Washington.  [Great  and  prolonged  applause.] 
I  hailed  true  Americanism  when  I  first  heard  of  the  great 
Jefferson,  who  upon  the  altar  of  God,  had  sworn  eternal  hos- 
tility to  tyranny  in  every  form.  [Renewed  applause.]  Gen- 
tlemen, as  one  who  has  suffered  the  stings  and  oppressions  of 
despotism,  I  claim  to  be  doubly  capable  of  appreciating  the 
blessings  of  liberty.  [Loud  cheers.]  Gentlemen,  I  have  seen 
the  nations  of  Europe  smarting  under  the  arbitrary  rule  of 
despots,  and  I  know  what  an  inestimable  treasure,  what  an 
incalculable  boon  freedom  is  to  man.  It  is,  therefore,  one  of 
the  proudest  moments  of  my  life,  to  avail  myself  of  this  op- 
portunity, as  a  representative  of  the  liberty-loving  Germans 
of  the  free  west,  before  this  vast  assemblage  of  so  many  of  the 
best  and  true  men  of  the  nation,  loudly  to  proclaim  my  undy- 
ing and  unfaltering  love  and  adherence  to  the  principles  of 
true  Americanism.  [Great  applause.]  Gentlemen,  if  it  is 
Americanism  to  believe,  religiously  to  believe,  in  those  eternal 
truths  announced  in  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  that 
all  men  are  born  equal  and  free,  and  endowed  by  their  Creator 
with  certain  inalienable  rights,  among  which  are  life,  liberty 
and  the  pursuit  of  happiness,  I  am  proud  to  be  an  American. 
[Applause.]  If  it  is  Americanism  firmly  to  believe  and 
warmly  to  cherish  the  memory  of  the  Fathers  of  the  Repub- 
lic, and  forever  to  maintain  the  faith  and  perpetuate  the  glo- 
rious inheritance  which  they  have  left  to  an  admiring  poste- 
rity, I  shall  ever  be  an  American.  [Loud  cheers.]  If  it  is 
Americanism,  gentlemen,  to  believe  that  governments  are  in- 
stituted for  the  benefit  of  the  governed,  and  not  for  the  benefit 
of  the  privileged  few — if  it  is  Americanism  to  believe  that  this 
glorious  federation  of  sovereign  states  has  a  higher  object  and 


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a  nobler  purpose  than  to  be  the  mere  means  of  fortifying, 
protecting  and  propagating  the  institution  of  human  servitude 
— if  it  is  Americanism  to  believe  that  these  vast  fertile  terri- 
tories of  the  west  are  forever  consecrated  to  freedom,  and  to 
remain  as  free  homes  for  free  labor  and  free  men,  I  shall  live 
and  die  an  American.  [Tremendous  cheering.]  Gentlemen, 
if  it  is  Americanism  to  believe  that  the  American  Constitution, 
as  framed  by  the  fathers  was  designed  as  a  bulwark  of  free- 
dom, and  intended  to  secure  the  blessings  of  liberty  to  our- 
selves and  to  our  posterity,  and  that  it  does  not  of  its  own 
force  carry  slavery  into  the  territories  of  the  United  States, 
but,  on  the  contrary,  means  freedom  and  justice  wherever  it 
goes,  I  shall  ever  claim  to  be  an  American.  [Great  applause.] 
And,  Mr.  President,  for  this  reason  I  am  in  favor  of  the  adop- 
tion of  the  resolution — not  because  I  claim  to  be  an  adopted 
citizen,  but  because  I  claim,  and  shall  claim  to  the  end  that 
I  am  an  American — an  American  by  choice ;  not  an  American 
by  birth,  it  is  true,  but  an  American  from  sentiment  and  from 
principle.  Gentlemen,  I  hope  this  resolution  will  pass  with- 
out objection  from  any  side.  There  are  more  than  20,000 
Republican  German  votes  in  the  State  of  Ohio  alone,  and 
they  shall  be  cast  in  a  solid  phalanx  for  the  candidate  who  is 
to  be  nominated  by  this  Convention.  [Renewed  applause.] 

Mr.  GEORGE  WILLIAM  CURTIS,  of  New  York  :  What  is  the 
question  before  the  house  ? 

The  PRESIDENT  :  It  is  upon  the  adoption  of  the  report. 

Mr.  CURTIS:  I  then  offer  as  an  amendment  to  the  report, 
as  presented  by  the  committee,  the  following  :  That  the 
second  clause  of  the  report  shall  read,  "  That  the  maintenance 
of  the  principles  promulgated  in  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence, and  embodied  in  the  Federal  Constitution ;"  and  then, 
sir,  I  propose  to  amend  by  adding  these  words :  "  That  all 
men  are  created  equal ;  that  they  are  endowed  by  their  Crea- 
tor with  certain  inalienable  rights ;  that  among  these  are  life, 
liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness;  that  to  secure  these 


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rights,  governments  are  instituted  amongst  men,  deriving  their 
just  powers  from  the  consent  of  the  governed" — then  proceed 
— "  is  essential  to  the  preservation  of  our  Eepublican  Institu- 
tions ;  and  that  the  Federal  Constitution,  the  rights  of  the 
states,  and  the  union  of  the  states,  must  and  shall  be  pre- 
served." [Great  applause,  and  many  gentlemen  struggling  for 
the  floor.] 

Mr.  THATER:  Has  not  that  amendment  once  been  voted 
down? 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  rise  to  a  question  of  order. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  There  is  one  question  of  order  already. 
The  gentleman  from  New  York,  Mr.  Curtis,  moves  to  amend 
this  second  resolution  in  the  words  which  he  has  read.  The 
gentleman  from  Oregon,  Mr.  Thayer,  raises  the  question  of 
order  that  this  is  substantially  the  same  proposition  already 
voted  upon;  and  the  Chair  sustains  the  question  of  order,  and 
the  question  recurs  on  the  adoption  of  the  report. 

Mr.  BLAIR,  of  Missouri :  If  it  is  necessary,  I  shall  appeal 
from  the  decision  of  the  Chair.  The  amendment  which  was 
first  offered  was  to  the  first  clause  or  section,  and  the  amend- 
ment offered  now  by  the  gentleman  from  New  York  is  to  the 
second  section,  and  it  is  an  entirely  different  question.  I 
think  if  it  is  necessary  I  am  ready  to  take  an  appeal  from  the 
decision  of  the  Chair. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  I  took  it  from  the  statement  of  the  gen- 
tleman from  New  York,  that  he  offered  the  same  amendment 
offered  before  by  Mr.  Giddings,  and  voted  on. 

Mr.  BLAIR:  It  is  offered  now  as  an  amendment  to  the 
second  ;  then  it  was  to  the  first  resolution. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Then  the  amendment  is  in  order. 
Mr.  CURTIS  :  Have  I  the  floor  ? 
The  PRESIDENT  :  Yes,  sir. 


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Mr.  CURTIS,  (from  his  chair) :  Mr.  President,  I  have  a  word 
to  say  on  that  amendment.  [Cries  of  "  Take  the  stand."]  I 
can  speak  as  well,  gentlemen,  from  this  seat.  I  have  to  ask 
this  Convention — the  second  National  Convention  the  Repub- 
lican party  has  ever  held — I  have  to  ask  this  Convention 
whether  they  are  prepared  to  go  upon  the  record  and  before 
the  country  as  voting  down  the  words  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence.  [Cries  of  "  No,  no,"  and  applause.]  I  have, 
sir,  in  the  amendment  which  I  have  introduced,  quoted  simply 
and  only  from  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  Bear  in 
mind  that  in  Philadelphia,  in  1S56,  the  Convention  of  this 
same  great  party  were  not  afraid  to  announce  those  by  which 
alone  the  Republican  party  lives,  and  upon  which  alone  the 
future  of  this  country  in  the  hands  of  the  Republican  party 
is  possible.  [Tremendous  cheering.]  Now,  sir,  I  ask  gentle- 
men gravely  to  consider  that  in  the  amendment  which  I  have 
proposed,  I  have  uttered  nothing  that  the  soundest  and  safest 
man  in  all  the  land  might  not  do ;  and  I  rise  simply — for  I 
am  now  sitting  down — to  ask  gentlemen  to  think  well  before, 
upon  the  free  prairies  of  the  West,  in  the  summer  of  I860, 
they  dare  to  wince  and  quail  before  the  men  who,  in  Phila- 
delphia in  1776 — in  Philadelphia,  in  the  Arch-Keystone  State, 
so  amply,  so  nobly  represented  upon  this  platform  to-day — 
before  they  dare  to  shrink  from  repeating  the  words  that  these 
great  men  enunciated.  [Terrific  applause.] 

Mr.  OYLER,  of  Indiana :  I  presume  that  all  the  Republicans 
are  in  favor  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  Does  it 
necessarily  follow  that  we  must  publish  it  in  our  platform? 
[Voices  :  "  Yes."]  I  want  to  talk  to  the  delegates  here.  I 
ask  the  question  if  it  is  necessary  to  put  it  in  ?  They  answer 
me  it  is.  Well,  then,  it  is  there  now.  [Voices:  "No."] 
Read  for  yourselves  the  secon'd  resolution.  [A  voice  :  "  Put  it 
in  twice."]  I  will  read  it  to  you  : 

"  That  the  maintenance  of  the  principles  promulgated  in 
the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  embodied  in  the  Fede- 
ral Constitution,  is  essential  to  the  preservation  of  our  Repub- 
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lican  institutions,  and  that  the  Federal  Constitution,  the 
rights  of  the  States,  and  the  union  of  the  States  must  and 
shall  be  preserved." 

Does  not  that  indorse  it  ?  We  believe  in  the  Bible ;  shall 
we  put  it  in  from  the  first  chapter  of  Genesis  to  the  last  chap- 
ter of  Eevelations  ?  We  believe  in  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States ;  shall  we  put  it  in  from  first  to  last  ?  I  say  no. 
I  say  it  is  enough  for  us  to  assert  a  belief  in,  and  our  confi- 
dence in,  and  firm  reliance  upon,  the  Declaration  of 'Indepen- 
dence and  the  Constitution. 

Mr.  NYE,  of  New  York  :  I  want,  sir,  something  done  in 
this  Convention.  [Cries  of  "  Vote."]  I  am  only  anxious,  sir, 
that  something  should  be  done  in  this  Convention  to  mark 
with  great  distinctness  and  in  unmistakable  terms,  that  we 
indorse  that  language,  and  that  portion  of  the  language  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  that  is  moved  as  an  amendment 
to  the  second  resolution.  [Cheers  and  voices,  "  You  shall  have 
it,"  "  We  will,"  "  You  shall  have  it  if  you  say  no  more  about 
it."]  That,  sir,  is  all  I  want.  I  am  exceedingly  glad  that 
simply  the  fear  of  a  speech  from  me  should  induce  gentlemen 
to  vote  in  that  way.  [Laughter  and  applause.] 

The  question  being  on  the  amendment  offered  by  Mr.  Curtis, 
of  New  York,  the  vote  was  taken  and  the  amendment 
adopted. 

The  question  now  recurring  on  the  adoption  of  the  report 
of  the  committee,  the  platform  was  adopted  unanimously 
with  a  shout  of  applause. 

Upon  the  adoption  of  the  platform,  the  delegates  and  the 
whole  of  the  vast  audience  rose  to  their  feet  in  a  transport  of 
enthusiasm,  the  ladies  waving  their  handkerchiefs  and  the 
gentlemen  their  hats,  while  for  many  minutes  the  tremendous 
cheers  and  shouts  of  applause  cbntinued,  and  again  and  again 
were  renewed  and  repeated. 

Mr.  GOODRICH  :  I  move  that  we  adjourn.  [Cries  of  "  No, 
no,"  <:  Ballot,  ballot."]  I  withdraw  the  motion,  and  move 


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that  we  now  proceed  to  ballot  for  a  candidate  for  the  Presi- 
dency. 

Mr.  EGGLESTON  :  I  renew  the  motion  to  adjourn, 
The  motion  to  adjourn  was  put  and  lost. 

Mr.  R.  M.  CORWINE  :  I  move  that  we  now  proceed  to  ballot 
for  a  candidate  for  President.  [Great  disorder,  and  cries  of 
"  Ballot,  ballot."] 

Mr.  CARTER  :  I  call  for  a  division  by  ayes  and  nays,  to  see 
if  gentlemen  want  to  go  without  their  supper.  [Derisive 
laughter,  and  cries  of  "  Call  the  roll."] 

On  motion,  the  Convention  then  adjourned  to  Friday  at  10 
o'clock. 


THIRD   DAY. 

The  Convention  re-assembled  at  10  o'clock,  agreeably  to 
adjournment. 

After  the  delegates  had  seated  themselves,  the  proceedings 
were  opened  by  the  following  prayer,  by  Rev.  M.  GREEN,  of 
Chicago : 

Our  Lord,  our  God,  we  adore  Thee  as  the  eternal,  immor- 
tal, invisible,  and  only  true  God.  Every  excellence  adorns 
Thy  nature ;  every  attribute  of  majesty  supports  Thy  throne. 
Thou  art  our  God,  and  we  will  praise  Thee ;  our  fathers' 
God,  and  we  will  exalt  thee.  We  thank  Thee,  O  Lord,  for 
the  numberless  kindnesses  which  Thou  hast  manifested  to- 
wards this  people,  in  their  origin,  in  their  deliverance  from 
subsequent  evils  which  have  threatened  them,  and  for  the  high 
degree  of  prosperity  which  we  still  enjoy.  O  God,  forbid  that 
we,  their  descendants,  should  be  unworthy  of  our  sires,  who 
acknowledged  Thee  in  their  ways,  and  invoked  Thy  benedic- 
tion upon  their  efforts  to  establish  a  free  government.  Lord, 
we  entreat  Thee,  who  hast  delivered  us  from  external  enemies, 


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to  protect  us  from  intestine  evil.  Oh!  do  Thou,  infinite  dis- 
poser of  events,  perpetuate  our  liberties.  And  now  we  thank 
Thee  that  Thou  hast  permitted  these  delegates  of  the  people 
to  assemble,  and  so  far  to  pursue  their  object  with  such  har- 
mony and  mutual  respect.  We  pray  Thee,  still  to  clothe  Thy 
servant,  the  President  of  this  body,  with  the  authority  re- 
quisite for  his  exalted  post,  and  we  entreat  Thee  to  bring  to 
a  happy  result  the  labors  of  this  body  of  representatives  of 
the  people.  O,  we  entreat  Thee,  that  at  some  future  but  not 
distant  day,  the  evils  which  now  invest  the  body  politic  shall 
not  only  have  been  arrested  in  their  progress,  but  wholly  eradi- 
cated from  the  system.  And  may  the  pen  of  the  historian 
trace  an  intimate  connection  between  that  glorious  consumma- 
tion and  the  transactions  of  this  Convention.  O  Lord,  our 
God,  Thou  art  in  Heaven  and  on  earth,  therefore  should 
our  words  be  few.  Our  prayer  is  now  before  Thee.  Wilt 
Thou  hear,  accept  and  answer  it,  for  the  sake  of  our  Ee- 
deemer.  Amen. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention — The  Chair 
feels  it  his  duty  this  morning  to  appeal,  not  merely  to  the 
gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  but  to  every  individual  of  this 
vast  audience,  to  remember  the  utmost  importance  of  keep- 
ing and  preserving,  during  the  entire  session,  as  much  silence 
as  possible ;  and  he  asks  gentlemen  who  are  not  members  of 
this  Convention,  in  the  name  of  this  Convention,  that  they 
will,  to  the  utmost  of  their  ability,  refrain  from  any  demon- 
strations of  applause  that  may  disturb  the  proceedings  of  the 
Convention.  I  should  suggest  to  the  delegates  that  they 
themselves  set  the  example  to  their  friends  who  are  not  of 
this  Convention ;  that  each  will,  to  the  utmost  of  his  indivi- 
dual capacity,  co-operate  with  the  Chair  in  keeping  entire 
order. 

The  Chair  has  received  some  communications  which  he  will 
lay  before  the  Convention. 


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The  SECRETARY  read  the  communications,  as  follows  : 

CHICAGO,  May  18,  1860. 

Hon.  GEORGE  ASHMCN,  President  of  the  National  Convention,  Chicago. 

Dear  Sir :  The  delegates  of  the  Convention  are  invited  to 
an  excursion,  on  Monday  next,  over  the  Galena  and  Chicago 
Union  Railroad,  to  Dubuque,  thence  down  the  Mississippi 
river  to  Fulton  or  Clinton,  from  which  place  they  can  return 
to  Chicago  on  Tuesday  evening,  or  extend  their  excursion  to 
Cedar  Rapids,  over  the  Chicago,  Iowa  and  Nebraska  Railroad, 
and  return  on  Wednesday  evening  in  time  to  connect  with 
Eastern  trains. 

Very  respectfully,  yours, 

E.  B.  TALCOTT, 

General  Superintendent. 

A  DELEGATE  :  I  move  that  it  lie  on  the  table  for  the 
present. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  Chair  has  received  another  communi- 
cation, which  will  be  read : 

NEW  YORK  April  20. 

To  THE  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION  : 

At  a  meeting  of  the  representatives  of  the  working  men  of 
the  different  wards  of  this  city,  Brooklyn,  Williamsburgh  and 
Greenpoint,  held  on  the  evening  of  the  16th  inst.,  at  Union 
Hall,  195  Bowery,  it  was 

Resolved,  That  the  officers  of  the  meeting  be  instructed  to 
address  the  Republican  National  Convention,  to  assemble  at 
Chicago,  and  respectfully  request  the  Convention  to  declare 
itself  opposed  to  all  further  traffic  in  the  public  lands  of  the 
United  States,  and  in  favor  of  laying  them  out  in  farms  and 
lots  for  the  free  and  exclusive  use  of  actual  settlers. 

We  see  this  singular  condition  of  affairs,  that  while  wealth 
in  our  own  country  is  rapidly  accumulating;  while  internal  im- 
provements of  every  description  are  fast  increasing,  and  while 
machinery  is  multiplying  the  powers  of  production  to  an  im- 
mense extent,  yet  with  all  these  advantages  the  compensation 


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for  useful  labor  is  getting  less  and  less.  We  seek  the  cause 
of  this  anomaly,  and  we  trace  it  to  the  monopoly  of  the  land, 
with  labor  at  the  mercy  of  capital.  We  therefore  desire  to 
abolish  the  monopoly,  not  by  interfering  with  the  conven- 
tional rights  of  persons  now  in  possession,  but  by  arresting 
the  further  sale  of  all  land  not  yet  appropriated  as  private 
property,  and  by  allowing  those  lands  hereafter  to  be  freely 
occupied  by  those  who  may  choose  to  settle  on  them.  We 
propose  that  the  public  land  hereafter  shall  not  be  owned,  but 
occupied  only.  The  occupant  having  the  right  to  sell  or  dis- 
pose of  his  or  her  improvements  to  any  one  not  in  possession 
of  other  lands,  so  that  by  preventing  individuals  from  becom- 
ing possessed  of  more  than  a  limited  quantity,  every  one  may 

enjoy  the  right. 

Respectfully  yours, 

HENRY  BENING,   Chairman. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  Chair  would  suggest  that  the  Com- 
mittee on  Platform  and  Resolutions  having  reported,  and  their 
report  covering  the  subject  matter  of  this  resolution,  that  the 
communication  lie  on  the  table. 

The  suggestion  was  assented  to. 

The  CHAIR  :  At  the  adjournment,  a  motion  was  pending, 
made  by  Mr.  Goodrich,  of  Minnesota,  that  the  Convention  do 
now  proceed  to  ballot  for  a  candidate  for  President  of  the 
United  States.  [Applause.]  That  motion  is  the  business  first 
in  order.  [Cries  of  "  Question,  question."] 

Mr.  M.  BLAIR,  of  Maryland :  Before  the  vote  is  taken  upon 
that  question,  I  wish  to  ask  leave  to  file  the  credentials  of  ad- 
ditional delegates  to  fill  up  the  delegation  from  the  State  of 
Maryland.  This  is  made  necessary  by  the  resolution  or  rule 
adopted  yesterday  by  the  Convention,  which  provided  that 
the  votes  of  the  delegation  from  each  State  should  be  confined 
to  the  number  of  delegates  present.  The  delegation  from 
Maryland  not  being  full,  it  became  necessary,  under  that  rule, 
in  order  to  cast  the  full  vote  of  the  State,  that  the  delegation 


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should  be  filled.  At  a  meeting  held  last  evening,  the  delega- 
tion was  filled,  in  pursuance  of  the  authority  given  us  by  the 
State  Convention  of  Maryland,  which  we  represent  upon  this 
floor.  I  therefore  offer  the  credentials  of  five  additional  dele- 
gates, now  present  in  their  seats,  completing  the  delegation. 
[Cries  of  "  Leave,  leave."] 

The  CHAIR  :  No  objection  being  made  they  will  be  re- 
ceived. 

Mr.  SARGENT,  of  California :  The  ratio  of  representation,  as 
at  present  constituted,  gives  to  Maryland  eleven  votes.  I 
wish  to  inquire  if  the  effect  of  receiving  these  credentials  is 
to  increase  the  number  of  votes  to  sixteen,  or  twice  the  num- 
ber of  her  electoral  vote,  or  if  that  vote  is  still  simply  eleven? 
If  it  is  merely  to  receiving  these  gentlemen  upon  this  floor  to 
advise  with  the  Maryland  delegation,  there  can  be  no  objection 
to  the  increase — letting  the  Maryland  delegation  stand  on  the 
same  footing  as  now ;  but  if  it  is  proposed  to  increase  their 
vote  in  this  Convention,  I  certainly  shall  oppose  it.  If  it  is 
proposed  now  to  increase  the  vote  cast  by  that  or  any  other 
State,  I  object.  It  seems  to  me  that  this  matter  was  fully 
considered  by  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  voted  on  by  the 
Convention,  when  they  received  the  report  of  that  committee; 
their  report  is  before  the  Convention,  having  been  received ; 
and  before  the  vote  of  any  State  or  Territory  is  increased,  it 
seems  to  me  that  the  matter  ought  to  go  back  to  the  com- 
mittee, and  they  should  investigate  the  matter,  and  under- 
stand by  what  authority  this  increase  is  made.  I  therefore 
ask  for  information,  whether  the  effect  of  this  proposition  is 
to  increase  the  vote  of  Maryland,  or  to  increase  the  number 
of  persons  who  will  cast  the  vote  already  determined  upon  ? 
If  I  am  right  in  supposing  that  it  is  to  increase  their  vote,  I 
shall  oppose  it. 

Mr.  COALE,  of  Maryland :  I  will  answer  the  gentleman.  We 
came  here  with  a  full  delegation  elected.  We  had  to  come 
some  distance  to  get  here,  and  we  found  when  we  formed  that 


104 

there  were  only  eleven  gentlemen  present.  And  so  I,  as  a 
member  of  the  Committee  on  Elections,  handed  in  eleven 
names,  because  there  were  only  eleven  of  us  present.  I 
stated,  at  the  same  time,  that  there  was  a  full  delegation 
elected,  and  that  we  had  full  power  from  our  constituents  to 
fill  up  all  vacancies.  We  had  the  power  and  we  had  the  right, 
but  we  deemed  it  improper  and  immodest  in  us  to  come  for- 
ward at  first  and  claim  to  cast  the  vote  of  the  whole  delega- 
tion until  we  found  Marylanders  enough  were  present,  ready 
and  willing  to  take  their  places  with  us.  Our  delegation 
then  held  a  meeting,  and  according  to  the  right  that  has  been 
exercised  by  every  other  delegation,  and  the  authority  given 
to  us  by  our  constituents,  we  filled  the  vacancies ;  and  the 
gentlemen  are  here  present.  Shall  we  be  thrown  out  now? 
Shall  we  be  told  that  we  are  not  to  have  the  privileges  of 
other  delegations  ?  That  we  are  forbidden  to  do  that  which 
we  are  authorized  to  do,  and  which  has  been  done  by  others  ? 
I  have  no  idea  that  such  illiberality  will  be  extended  to  us. 

Mr.  SARGENT,  of  California  :  By  the  report  of  the  commit- 
tee, Maryland  is  entitled  to  cast  eight  votes.  The  question  is 
now  whether  Maryland  proposes  to  cast  any  beyond  the  eight 
votes  ? 

Mr.  COALE,  of  Maryland  :  No,  sir.  We  have  six  congres- 
sional districts,  and  we  have  six  votes  in  virtue  of  these  dis- 
tricts, and  we  have  two  Senators,  making  eight,  and  to  cast 
the  full  vote  we  double  that  number,  making  sixteen.  In  that 
way  we  would  vote  according  to  the  same  ratio  with  the 
other  delegations.  ["  That's  right,  that's  right."] 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  Chair  understands,  that  on  yesterday 
the  Convention  adopted  a  report  of  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials, declaring  Maryland  entitled  to  eleven  delegates,  to 
cast  eight  votes  ;  and  understood,  also,  that  proposition  made 
this  morning,  if  adopted  and  ratified  by  the  Convention,  will 
give  the  power  to  sixteen  gentlemen  to  cast  eight  votes — the 
same  number  precisely  as  before. 


105 

Mr.  M.  BLAIR,  of  Maryland :  The  Committee  on  Credentials 
reported  that  the  delegates  present  should  cast  the  vote  of 
the  State.  Our  State  is  entitled,  on  this  floor,  to  sixteen 
delegates.  While  that  report  was  before  the  Convention,  and 
before  the  vote  was  taken  on  it,  the  gentleman  from  Minne- 
sota (Mr.  Goodrich)  offered  an  amendment  which  limited  the 
vote  of  the  State  to  the  delegates  present,  and  that  made  it 
incumbent  upon  us,  in  order  to  cast  the  vote  of  the  State,  to 
fill  up  the  delegation.  That  is  the  explanation,  gentlemen* 
why  we  did  not  fill  it  up  when  we  first  came  here.  The 
body  has  before  allowed  the  delegates  to  cast  the  vote  of  the 
State,  whether  more  or  less  were  present.  Under  the  resolu- 
tion adopted  at  the  instance  of  the  gentleman  from  Minnesota* 
we  are  deprived  of  casting  the  full  vote  of  the  State.  Now, 
we  ask,  in  pursuance  of  the  authority  given  us  by  the  State 
Convention  of  Maryland,  to  fill  up  our  delegation,  and  be  able 
to  cast  the  whole  vote  of  the  State  of  Maryland.  I  have  not 
heard  any  gentleman  object  to  our  proposition  to  cast  the 
full  vote. 

Mr.  BENTOX,  of  New  Hampshire,  the  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Credentials  :  It  was  proposed  to  limit  the  num- 
ber of  votes  to  the  number  of  delegates  actually  present.  This 
was  agreed  to  not  only  in  reference  to  the  State  of  Maryland, 
but  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Oregon  and  Texas.  It  was  discussed 
in  committee,  and  it  was  finally  agreed  that  this  State  should 
be  allowed  to  cast  eleven  votes.  After  the  committee  ad- 
journed, one  gentleman  appeared  and  asked  to  be  allowed  to 
appear  on  the  floor  and  vote.  I  told  him  it  was  too  late.  It 
was  generally  understood,  and  it  was  acted  upon  by  almost 
unanimous  consent,  that  the  States  which  were  not  fully  rep- 
resented should  claim  no  more  votes  in  the  Convention  than 
there  were  delegates  actually  present,  either  real  or  substi- 
tuted delegates. 

Mr.  ARMOUR,  of  Maryland  :  As  one  of  the  delegates  from 
the  State  of  Maryland.  I  object  to  the  credentials  being  re- 
14 


106 

ceived.  [''  Louder."]  This  is  a  matter  of  business,  and  is  not 
for  outsiders.  [A  voice:  "We  ain't  outsiders."]  I  say  that 
there  are  only  eleven  of  us  here,  of  the  sixteen  appointed  by  our 
State  Convention.  The  Committee  on  Credentials  reported 
that  fact.  Since  the  adjournment  of  the  Convention — 

A  VOICE  :  "  If  you  will  take  stand  this  side  of  the  house, 
we  can  hear  you.  We  cannot  hear  you  now." 

Mr.  ARMOUR  (taking  the  stand) :  I  have  a  reason,  as  one  of 
the  delegates  from  the  State  of  Maryland,  to  enter  my  solemn 
protest  against  the  reception  of  the  credentials  as  filled  up. 
We  met  in  the  city  of  Baltimore  and  appointed  eight  dele- 
gates and  eight  alternates.  But  eleven  of  us  are  here. 
Eleven  names  were  yesterday  presented  to  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  and  the  Committee  on  Credentials  made  their  re- 
port, and  reported  us  eleven  present  and  entitled  to  eight 
votes.  Since  the  adjournment  of  the  Convention  on  yester- 
day, a  portion  of  my  co-delegates — I  am  not  here  to  impugn 
their  motives,  nor  do  I  intend  to  do  so — a  portion  of  them 
met  without  my  knowledge,  without  the  knowledge  of  at 
least  one  more,  and  perhaps  two  more  of  the  delegates,  and 
have  filled  up  our  delegation  from  gentlemen,  God  Almighty 
only  knows  where  they  live.  [Applause  and  laughter.]  I  do 
not  wish  to  place  myself  in  an  attitude  hostile  to  a  majority 
of  my  delegation,  I  do  not  wish  to  throw  any  embarrassment 
in  the  way  of  the  peaceful  settlement  of  all  the  business  that 
has  brought  us  together,  but  I  wish  to  say  that  there  is  a  gen- 
tleman here  from  Maryland  who  has  been  knocking  at  the 
door  of  this  Convention,  but  who  has  not  been  received ;  my 
co-delegates  have  refused  to  fill  up  the  delegation  with  his 
name,  and  have,  for  purposes  known  only  to  themselves, 
filled  it  up  with  outsiders.  For  this  reason,  for  the  reason  that 
the  delegation  has  been  made  full  by  placing  upon  it  the 
names  of  men  unknown  to  me,  by  placing  upon  it  the  names 
of  non-residents  of  the  State  of  Maryland,  and  because  I  had 
no  knowledge  that  this  meeting  was  coming  together,  be- 
cause I  have  not  co-operated  in  this  movement,  because  I  do 


107 

not  know  the  purpose  for  which  this  delegation  has  been 
filled  up,  and  because  I  think  we  should  not  pretend  to  pre- 
sent in  this  Convention,  a  stronger  front  than  that  which  we 
possess.  We  have  eleven  men  here,  and  we  should  only  vote 
our  eight  votes.  I  hope,  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  you 
will  vote  this  down.  [Applause  and  cries  for  the  question.] 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio :  I  call  for  the  previous  question. 
Previous  question  sustained,  and  the  additional  motion  to 
receive  the  delegates  was  lost. 

Mr.  EVARTS,  of  New  York  :  Mr.  Chairman,  as  the  Conven- 
tion has  by  its  vote  decided  to  proceed  to  a  ballot,  you  may 
be  assured  that  I  do  riot  rise  for  the  purpose  of  making  a 
speech.  I  rise  simply  to  ask,  sir,  whether  it  is  in  order  to 
present  names  in  nomination  ? 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  Chair  is  of  the  opinion  that  under 
the  execution  of  the  order  adopted,  it  may  be  in  order  to  put 
in  nomination  such  persons  as  the  Convention  may  desire, 
without  debate. 

Mr.  EVARTS  :  I  rise 


A  Voice — The  Pennsylvania  delegation  is  not  provided  with 
seats.  [Voices — "  Get  them  in  quick."] 

The  PRESIDENT  :  I  will  take  this  opportunity  to  present  a 
communication  received  by  the  Chair. 

The  SECRETARY  reads: 

CHICAGO,  May  IS,  1860. 

We  feel  it  our  duty  to  inform  you  that  members  of  your 
Convention  pass  their  tickets  over  the  railings  and  through  the 
windows  to  their  friends  who  are  not  entitled  to  seats.  If  the 
Convention  find  inconvenience,  it  is  the  fault  of  the  members 
and  not  through  our  interference.  Any  instructions  you  think 
proper  to  give  will  be  strictly  carried  out. 

PETER  PAGE, 
GURDON  S.  HUBBARD, 
CHAS.  N.  HOLDEN. 


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The  PRESIDENT  :  The  Chair  knows  of  a  no  more  practical 
way  than  to  ask  each  delegation  to  insist  that  no  person  ex- 
cept their  delegates  shall  occupy  their  seats.  If  they  will  do 
that  with  rigor  every  delegate  in  the  room  will  be  accommo- 
dated. 

Mr.  WYSE,  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  called  the  attention 
of  the  Chair  to  some  mistake  in  the  printed  list  of  dele- 
gates. 

The  PRESIDENT  stated  that  he  understood  the  error  had 
been  corrected. 

Mr.  EVARTS,  of  New  York  :  In  the  order  of  business  before 
the  Convention,  sir,  I  take  the  liberty  to  name  as  a  candidate 
to  be  nominated  by  this  Convention  for  the  office  of  President 
of  the  United  States.  William  H.  Seward.  [Prolonged  ap- 
plause and  cheers.] 

Mr.  JUDD,  of  Illinois  :  I  desire  on  behalf  of  the  delegation 
from  Illinois,  to  put  in  nomination,  as  a  candidate  for  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States,  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois.  [Im- 
mense applause  and  cheers.] 

Mr.  DUDLEY,  of  New  Jersey  :  Mr.  President,  New  Jersey 
presents  the  name  of  Wm.  L.  Dayton.  [Applause.] 

Grov.  REEDER,  of  Pennsylvania  :  Pennsylvania  nominates  as 
her  candidate  for  the  Presidency  General  Simon  Cameron. 
[Cheers.] 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio  :  Ohio  presents  to  the  consideration 
of  this  Convention,  as  a  candidate  for  President,  the  name  of 
Salmon  P.  Chase.  [Applause  and  cheers.] 

Mr.  C.  B.  SMITH,  of  Indiana :  I  desire,  on  behalf  of  the 
delegation  from  Indiana,  to  second  the  nomination  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  of  Illinois.  [Tremendous  applause.] 


109 

Mr.  BLAIR,  of  Missouri :  I  am  commissioned  by  the  repre- 
sentatives of  the  State  of  Missouri  to  present  to  this  Conven- 
tion the  name  of  Edward  Bates  as  a  candidate  for  the  Presi- 
dency. [Applause  and  cheers.] 

Mr.  AUSTIN  BLAIR,  of  Michigan  :  In  behalf  of  the  delega- 
tion from  the  Michigan  I  second,  the  nomination  for  President 
of  the  United  States,  of  William  H.  Seward.  [Immense  ap- 
plause and  cheers.] 

Mr.  THOMAS  CORWIN,  of  Ohio  :  I  rise,  Mr.  President,  at  the 
request  of  many  gentlemen,  part  of  them  members  of  this 
Convention,  and  many  of  them  of  the  most  respectable  gen- 
tlemen known  to  the  history  of  this  country  and  its  politics, 
to  present  the  name  of  John  McLean.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  SCHURZ,  of  Wisconsin  :  I  am  commissioned  by  the 
delegation  from  the  State  of  Wisconsin,  to  second  the  nomi- 
nation of  William  H.  Seward,  of  New  York.  [Warm  ap- 
plause.] 

Mr.  NORTH,  of  Minnesota  :  I  am  commissioned  on  behalf 
of  the  delegation  from  Minnesota,  to  second  the  nomination  of 
William  H.  Seward.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  WILDER,  of  Kansas  :  I  am  commissioned,  not  only  by 
the  delegation  from  Kansas,  but  by  the  people  of  Kansas,  to 
present  the  name  of  Wm.  H.  Seward,  of  New  York. 

Mr.  DELANO,  of  Ohio  :  I  rise  on  behalf  of  a  portion  of  the 
delegation  from  Ohio,  to  put  in  nomination  the  man  who 
knows  how  to  split  rails  and  maul  democrats — Abraham 
Lincoln.  [Great  applause  and  laughter.] 

Mr.  LOGAN,  of  Illinois  :  Mr.  President,  In  order  or  out  of 
order,  I  desire  to  move  that  this  Convention,  for  itself  and  this 
vast  audience,  give  three  cheers  for  all  the  candidates  presented 
by  the  Republican  party. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  gentleman  is  out  of  order. 


A  Delegate  from  Iowa  :  Mr.  President,  I  rise  in  the  name 
of  two-thirds  of  the  delegation  of  Iowa,  again  to  second  the 
nomination  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  [Great  applause.] 

Mr.  ANDREW,  of  Massachusetts  :  I  move  you  that  we  pro- 
ceed to  vote. 

FIRST'  BALLOT. 


STATES.  3        o        o        «        g         i       .i       1 

£      J  :  .T    .  1      -I      "3      I       *       *•      I       1      ! 
dD3^O«Se5oQa?£6 

Maine, 10      6     ..     ..• .. 

New  Hampshire, 1       7 1     ..      ..        1     .. 

Vermont, Id 

Massachusetts, 21      4 

Rhode  Island, 1      5       1       1 

Connecticut, 2       1..       7..      ..       2 

New  York, 70 

New  Jersey, 14 

^Pennsylvania, lj      4     . .     47^  . .       1 

Maryland, 3 8 

Delaware, 6 

Virginia, 8     14     ..       1 

Kentucky, 5       G      2     ..     ..       1..       8..       1     ..     .. 

Ohio, 8 4     ..     34 

"^Indiana, 26 

Missouri, 18 

Michigan, 12 

Illinois, 22 

Texas, 4 2 

Wisconsin, 10 

Iowa, 2      2..       1       1       1..       1 

California, 8 

Minnesota, 8 

Oregon, 5 

TERRITORIES. 

Kansas, 6 

Nebraska, 2      1     ..       1 2 

District  of  Columbia,     2 


Pending  the  vote  the  following  proceedings  transpired  : 


Ill 

Mr.  TRACY,  of  California :  I  wish  to  say,  as  there  has 
been  one  vote  cast  for  Mr.  Fremont,  that  he  is  not  a  candidate 
before  this  Convention. 

When  the  State  of  Maryland  was  called,  during  the  vote, 
Mr.  COCHRANE,  Chairman  of  the  Delegation,  said  : 

The  Republican  State  Convention  of  Maryland  having  re- 
quested that  the  delegation  should  vote  as  a  unit,  I  therefore, 
in  accordance  with  the  wishes  of  a  majority  of  the  delegtition, 
cast  1 1  votes  for  Edward  Bates.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  COALE,  of  Maryland  :  I  object  to  that.  I  am  a  freeman 
in  Maryland,  although  surrounded  by  slavery.  If  I  were  go- 
ing to  look  for  a  place  to  be  immolated  upon  the  altar  of 
slavery,  I  should  not  come  to  Chicago.  [Great  confusion 
and  cries  of  "order."]  Well,  hear  my  point  then.  We  are 
not  instructed  to  vote  for  Edward  Bates.  Such  a  resolution 
was  presented  there  and  was  instantly  voted  down.  [A  Voice — 
you  are  not  in  order.]  Well,  my  point  is  that  we  were  not 
instructed,  and  that  we  will  not  act  according  to  the  recom- 
mendation except  so  far  as  we  please. 

Mr.  ARMOUR,  of  Maryland  :  I  will  present  the  point  of  pro- 
testation a  little  clearer  than  my  aged  friend  has  done.  [Cries 
of  "  Call  the  roll."] 

The  PRESIDENT  :  It  is  not  a  subject  of  debate.  The  question 
is,  shall  the  Convention  receive  the  eleven  votes  from  the  State 
of  Maryland  for  Mr.  Bates?  and  this  must  be  decided  without 
debate.  [Voices — "Call  the  roll,"  "hear  him,"  and  great 
confusion.] 

Mr.  ARMOUR  :  I  do  not  wish  to  debate  the  point.  I  wish 
to  state  succinctly  and  clearly  the  point  of  our  protest.  Have 
I  leave?  [Cries  of  "  Yes,"  and  "  No."]  At  the  Convention  which 
assembled  at  Maryland,  a  resolution  was  offered  instructing 
the  delegates  of  the  State  of  Maryland  to  vote  as  a  unit 
There  was  a  general  feeling  against  that  resolution,  and  a  num- 
ber of  gentlemen  spoke  against  it,  and  I  had  risen  to  protest 


112 

against  it  when  some  gentleman  in  my  rear  moved  that  we 
be  simply  "  recommended."  Not  one  man  in  that  Convention 
considered  that  "recommend"  and  "  instruct"  were  synony- 
mous terms.  Not  one  of  us  considered  that  the  recommen- 
dation was  equivalent  to  an  instruction.  Therefore,  we  let  it 
pass,  believing  then  and  now  that  we  were  free  to  cast  our 
votes  for  the  man  of  our  choice,  and  we  now  claim  that  right 
on  the  floor  of  the  Convention.  [Cries  of  "  Good,"  and  ap- 
plause.] 

Mr.  R.  M.  CORWINE,  of  Ohio  :  One  of  the  rules  adopted 
yesterday  declares  that  the  Chairman  of  each  Delegation  shall 
cast  the  vote  of  his  delegation. 

A  VOICE  :     No,  no  !  it  says  he  shall  "  announce"  it. 

Mr.  COALE  :  We  will  vote  as  we  please,  and  we  will  not 
vote  in  any  other  way. 

The  Chair  then  stated  the  question. 

Mr.  FRANK  P.  BLAIR,  of  Missouri :  I  rise  to  a  point  of  order. 
I  desire  to  know  whether  this  Convention  is  to  be  governed 
by  its  rules,  or  not  ?  I  call  the  attention  of  the  President  to 
the  rule  which  we  have  adopted,  and  under  which  we  must 
act,  unless  it  is  intended  now  to  violate  it. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  Chair  is  aware  of  the  rule.  The 
rule  adopted  was,  that  the  vote  of  each  State  should  be  an- 
nounced by  its  Chairman. 

A  VOICE  :  He  must  but  announce  it  and  announce  it 
truly. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  And  the  Chair  rules  that  he  is  bound  to 
receive  the  report  made  by  the  Chairman  of  the  delegation, 
and  announce  it  to  the  Convention  as  their  vote,  unless  it  is 
rejected  by  the  Convention  ;  and  the  Chair,  not  wishing  to 
take  the  responsibility  of  settling  this  question,  may  refer  it 
to  the  Convention,  and  the  Chair  now  puts  the  question  to 


113 

the  Convention;  Shall  the  vote  announced  by  the  Chairman 
be  received  by  the  Convention  as  the  vote  of  the  State  of 
Maryland  ? 

The  question  was  decided  in  the  negative. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  voting,  which  occupied  consider- 
able time,  the  result  was  announced  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Convention,  as  follows  : 

For  Wm.  H.  Seward,  of  New  York, 173£ 

For  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois, 102  • 

For  Edward  Bates,  of  Missouri, 48 

For  Simon  Cameron,  of  Pennsylvania, 50£" 

For  John  McLean,  of  Ohio, 12  ^ 

For  Salmon  P.  Chase,  of  Ohio, 49  ' 

For  Benjamin  F.  Wade,  of  Ohio, 3  " 

For  William  L.  Dayton,  of  New  Jersey, 14  " 

For  John  M.  Read,  of  Pennsylvania, I 

For  Jacob  Collamer,  of  Vermont, 10  * 

For  Charles  Sumner,  of  Massachusetts, 1  - 

For  John  C.  Fremont,  of  California, 1  - 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,  465  ;  necessary  to  a  choice, 
233. 

THE  PRESIDENT  announced  that  no  candidate  having  re- 
ceived a  majority  of  the  whole  number  of  votes  cast,  the 
Convention  would  proceed  to  a  second  ballot. 

Mr.  CALEB  B.  SMITH,  of  Indiana,  being  in  the  chair,  the 
second  ballot  was  proceeded  with.  It  was  as  follows  : 

§  a  £ 

STATES.  %  £  S  §          ^ 


Maine, 10  6 

Xew  Hampshire,  —       1  9 

Vermont, 10 

Massachusetts, 22  4 


15 


114 


STATES.  -3 

*  §       I       1       ^       s       s>      a 

|  a     4     6     a     6     ft     cs 

Rhode  Island, 3     ....       2       3     .. 

Connecticut, 4       4     ..      ..       2..       2 

New  York, 70 

New  Jersey, 4 10     .. 

Pennsylvania, 2£48_..       1       2£ 

Maryland, 3     ..       8 

Delaware, 6 

Virginia, 8     14     . .        1 

Kentucky, 7       9 6     ..      .. 

Ohio, 14     ..      ..       2     29     ..      .. 

Indiana, 26 

Missouri, 18 

Michigan, 12 

Illinois, 22 

Texas, 6 

Wisconsin, 10 

Iowa, 2  5     ..      ..         £       i   -  - 

California, 8 

Minnesota, 8 

Oregon, 5 

TERRITORIES. 

Kansas, 6 

Nebraska, 3       1 2 

District  of  Columbia,       2 


After  the  vote  was  taken,  and  before  it  was  announced — 

Gov.  REEDER,  of  Pennsylvania,  said :  I  desire  to  state  that 
while  the  vote  was  going  on,  and  after  that  vote  was  given, 
the  name  of  Gen.  Cameron  was  withdrawn.  I  now  formally 
withdraw  the  name  of  Gen.  Cameron  from  this  Convention  as 
a  candidate  for  nomination. 

The  SECRETARY  announced  the  result  of  the  second  ballot 
as  follows : 


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For  WILLIAM  H.  SEWARD,  of  New  York,  184 \  votes.  [Ap- 
plause.] 

For  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN,  of  Illinois,  181  votes.  [Tremendous 
applause,  checked  by  the  Speaker.] 

For  EDWARD  BATES,  of  Missouri,  35  votes. 

For  SIMON  CAMERON,  of  Pennsylvania,  2  votes.  * 

For  JOHN  McLEAN,  of  Ohio,  8  votes. 

For  SALMON  P.  CHASE,  of  Ohio,  42J  votes. 

For  WILLIAM  L.  DAYTON,  of  New  Jersey,  10  votes. 

For  CASSIUS  M.  CLAY,  of  Kentucky,  2  votes. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast  465  ;  necessary  to  a  choice, 
233. 

The  CHAIR  announced  that  no  candidate  having  received 
a  majority  of  all  the  votes  cast,  there  was  no  nomination,  and 
the  Convention  would  proceed  to  a  third  ballot,  which  was 
then  taken,  as  follows  : 

•  "  £ 

STATES.  1  „•  o          | 

I  1      -3      $      * 

OB  «  O  J  a  «  O 

Maine, 10     ..     ..  6 

New  Hampshire, 1     ..      ..  9 

Vermont, 10 

Massachusetts, 18     ..      ..  8 

Rhode  Island, 1     ..       1  5  1     .... 

Connecticut, 1       4       2  4  ....       1 

New  York, 70 

New  Jersey, 5     ..      ..  8 

Pennsylvania, 52 

Maryland, 2     ..      ..  9 

Delaware,... 6 

Virginia, 8     ..      ..  14 

Kentucky, 6     ..       4  13 

Ohio, 15  29  2     ..     .. 

Indiana, 26 

Missouri, 18 


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STATES.  A                                  2 

£  §             ^              >»            3 

E»  (3        o         3         a        ft        6 

Michigan, 12 

Illinois, 22 

Texas, 6 

Wisconsin, 10 

Iowa, 2     ..         £     5£ 

California, 8 

Minnesota, 8 

Oregon, 1     ..      ..       4 

TERRITORIES. 

Kansas, 6 

Nebraska, 3     . .       2       1 

District  of  Columbia, 2 


180     22  24£  231J     511 

The  progress  of  the  ballot  was  watched  with  most  intense 
interest,  especially  toward  the  last,  the  crowd  becoming  silent 
as  the  contest  narrowed  down,  when,  before  the  result  was 
announced, 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio,  said :  I  arise,  Mr.  Chairman,  to  an- 
nounce the  change  of  four  votes  of  Ohio  from  Mr.  Chase  to 
Abraham  Lincoln. 

[This  announcement,  giving  Mr.  Lincoln  a  majority,  was 
greeted  by  the  audience  with  the  most  enthusiastic  and  thun- 
dering applause.  The  entire  crowd  rose  to  their  feet,  applaud- 
ing rapturously,  the  ladies  waving  their  handkerchiefs,  the 
men  waving  and  throwing  up  their  hats  by  thousands,  cheer- 
ing again  and  again.  The  applause  was  renewed  and  repeated 
for  many  minutes.  At  last,  partial  silence  having  been  re- 
stored, with  many  gentlemen  striving  to  get  the  floor.] 

Mr.  EVARTS,  of  New  York :  Mr.  Chairman,  has  the  vote 
been  declared? 


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The  CHAIE  :  No,  sir. 

Mr.  ANDREW,  of  Massachusetts  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  sought  an 
opportunity  some  time  since,  and  before  finishing  the  roll-call 
of  the  states,  at  the  direction  of  many  of  my  associates  of  the 
Massachusetts  delegation,  to  correct  their  vote.  I  am  in- 
structed to  report  that  the  vote  from  Massachusetts  stands : 
For  Abraham  Lincoln,  18 ;  for  William  H.  Seward,  8.  [Ap- 
plause.] 

Mr.  McCmLLis,  of  Maine  :  Mr.  Chairman,  the  young  giant 
of  the  West  has  become  of  age.  He  is  21  years  old.  [Loud 
cries  of  "  Order !"]  Maine  gives  her  vote  unanimously  in 
favor  of  Lincoln.  [Renewed  applause.] 

Gov.  REEDER,  of  Pennsylvania  :  I  desire  to  correct  the  vote 
of  Pennsylvania.  In  the  haste  of  taking  so  large  a  number 
of  delegates,  it  was  not  taken  as  they  desire,  and  they  wish 
me  to  announce  it  as,  for  Abraham  Lincoln,  53 ;  for  John  Mc- 
Lean, £  ;  for  William  H.  Seward,  £. 

Mr.  ROLLINS,  of  New  Hampshire :  I  desire  to  correct  the 
vote  of  New  Hampshire.  New  Hampshire  votes  for  Abra- 
ham Lincoln  10  votes.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  EAMES,  of  Rhode  Island  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  desire  now 
to  announce  that  Rhode  Island  casts  8  votes  for  Abraham 
Lincoln. 

Mr.  WELLES,  of  Connecticut :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  requested 
to  state  that  the  vote  of  Connecticut  is  8  for  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, 2  for  Salmon  P.  Chase  —  the  rest  as  before  given. 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio :  I  am  requested,  by  the  delegation 
from  Ohio,  to  now  present  their  unanimous  vote  for  Abraham 
Lincoln  ;  46  votes.  [Great  applause.] 

[At  this  time  there  was  great  confusion.  A  salute  was  fired 
without,  and  responded  to  within  the  wigwam  by  vociferous 
cheers.  A  large  photograph  of  Mr.  Lincoln  was  then  brought 


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upon  the  platform,  and  the  audience  greeted  the  sight  with 
rapturous  and  long  continued  cheering.] 

Mr.  BROWX,  of  Missouri :  I  am  instructed  to  cast  the  entire 
vote  of  Missouri  — 18  votes  —  for  that  gallant  son  of  the 
West,  Abraham  Lincoln.  [Great  enthusiasm.] 

A  DELEGATE  from  Iowa :  I  am  authorized  by  the  delegation 
from  Iowa  to  change  their  vote,  and  make  it  unanimous  for 
Lincoln.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  GALLAGHER,  of  Kentucky  :  Mr.  President,  Kentucky 
came  here,  not  to  obtrude,  but  to  sanction  the  expression  that 
is  now  indicated,  and  casts  a  full  vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln. 
[Loud  cheers.] 

Mr.  NORTH,  of  Minnesota :  I  am  authorized  by  the  delega- 
tion from  Minnesota,  to  make  it  unanimous  for  Abraham 
Lincoln. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Virginia :  The  delegation  from  Virginia 
ask  to  have  their  full  vote  recorded  for  Abraham  Lincoln. 
[Applause.] 

Mr.  TRACY,  of  California :  I  am  directed  by  the  delegation 
of  California  to  change  five  votes  in  favor  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, making  her  vote  5  to  3.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  FITCH,  of  Texas :  I  am  authorized  by  the  delegation  of 
Texas  to  have  their  vote  recorded  for  Abraham  Lincoln.  [Ap- 
plause.] 

Mr.  WYSE,  of  the  District  of  Columbia :  I  am  authorized 
to  change  the  vote  of  the  District  of  Columbia  from  William 
H.  Seward  to  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  WILDER,  of  Kansas :  I  am  authorized  by  the  delegation 
from  Kansas  to  change  her  vote  to  the  gallant  disciple  of  the 
"  Irrepressible  Conflict,"  Abraham  Lincoln.  [Applause.] 


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Mr.  WEBSTER,  of  Nebraska  :  Nebraska  casts  her  unanimous 
vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln.  [Applause.] 

A  DELEGATE  from  Oregon  :  Oregon  also  casts  her  unani- 
mous vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln.  [Applause.] 

After  these  changes  had  been  made  the  Secretary  announced 
the  result  of  the  vote  as  follows : 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast  466 ;  necessary  to  a  choice 
234. 

For  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois,  364  votes. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois,  is  selected 
as  your  candidate  for  President  of  the  United  States.  [Thun- 
ders of  applause,  and  great  confusion.] 

Mr.  EVARTS,  Chairman  of  the  New  York  Delegation,  then 
took  the  stand  and  said, 

Mr.  President,  and  gentlemen  of  the  Republican  National 
Convention :  The  State  of  New  York,  by  a  full  delegation, 
with  complete  unanimity  of  purpose  at  home,  came  to  this 
Convention  and  presented  to  its  choice  one  of  its  citizens, 
who  had  served  the  state  from  boyhood  up,  who  had  labored 
for  and  loved  it.  We  came  from  a  great  state,  with,  as  we 
thought,  a  great  statesman  [Prolonged  cheers,]  and  our  love 
of  the  Great  Republic,  from  which  we  are  all  delegates,  the 
great  American  Union,  and  our  love  of  the  great  Republican 
party  of  the  Union,  and  our  love  of  our  statesman  and  candi- 
date, made  us  think  that  we  did  our  duty  to  the  country,  and 
the  whole  country,  in  expressing  our  love  and  preference  for 
him.  [Loud  cheers.]  For,  gentlemen,  it  was  from  Gov.  Sew- 
ard  that  most  of  us  learned  to  love  Republican  principles  and 
the  Republican  party.  [Renewed  cheers.]  His  fidelity  to  the 
country,  the  constitution  and  the  laws ;  his  fidelity  to  the 
party  and  the  principle  that  the  majority  govern  ;  his  interest 
in  the  advancement  of  our  party  to  its  victory,  that  our  coun- 
try may  rise  to  its  true  glory,  induces  me  to  assume  to  speak 
his  sentiments,  as  I  do,  indeed,  the  opinions  of  our  whole  de- 
legation when  I  move  you,  as  I  do  now,  that  the  nomination 


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of  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois,  as  the  Republican  candidate 
for  the  suffrages  of  the  whole  country  for  the  office  of  Chief 
Magistrate  of  the  American  Union,  be  made  unanimous.  [En- 
thusiastic cheers.] 

Several  speakers  then  attempted  to  get  the  floor,  which 
was  accorded  to  Mr.  ANDREW,  Chairman  of  the  Massachusetts 
Delegation.  He  said  : 

Mr.  President,  gentlemen  of  the  National  Eepublican  Con- 
vention, and  fellow  citizens  of  the  United  States  of  America : 

I  am  deputed  by  the  united  voice  of  the  Massachusetts  de- 
legation to  second  the  motion  just  proposed  by  the  distin- 
guished citizen  of  New  York,  who  represents  the  delegation 
of  that  noble  State.  I  second  that  motion,  therefore,  in  the 
name  of  Massachusetts,  that  the  nomination  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln be  made  unanimous.  [Loud  cheers.]  Gentlemen,  the 
people  of  Massachusetts  hold  in  their  heart  of  hearts,  next  to 
their  reverence  and  love  for  Christian  faith,  their  reverence 
and  love  for  the  doctrine  of  equal  arid  impartial  liberty.  [Re- 
newed cheers.]  We  are  Republicans,  by  a  hundred  thousand 
majority,  of  the  old  stamp  of  the  Revolution.  [Cheers.]  We 
have  come  up  here  —  the  delegation  from  Massachusetts  — 
from  the  ground  where  on  Bunker's  Hill  the  Yankees  of  New 
England  met  the  deadly  fire  of  Britain.  We  have  come  from 
Concord,  where  was  spilled  the  first  blood  of  the  Revolution ; 
from  Lexington,  where  their  embattled  farmers  fired  a  shot 
that  was  heard  around  the  world.  We  have  come  from  Fa- 
neuil  Hall,  where  spoke  the  patriots  and  sages,  and  orators  of 
the  earliest  and  best  days  of  American  History,  where  our 
fathers  heard  propounded  those  doctrines  and  principles  of 
liberty  and  human  equality  which  found  their  enunciation 
and  exposition  in  the  Constitution  of  Massachusetts,  and  by 
which,  under  judicial  decision,  human  slavery  was  banished 
from  the  venerable  soil  of  that  ancient  commonwealth,  before 
the  Colonies  were  a  united  people.  [Cheers.]  We  have  come 
from  the  shadows  of  the  old  South  Church,  where  American 
liberty  was  baptized  in  the  waters  of  religion.  [Loud  ap- 
plause.] We  hold  the  purpose  firm  and  strong,  as  we  have 


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gone  through  the  tedious  struggle  of  years  now  gone  by,  to 
rescue,  before  we  die,  the  holy  ark  of  American  liberty  from 
the  grasp  of  the  Philistines  who  held  them.     Yes,  sir,  whether 
in  the  majority,  or  without  the  majority  of  the  American 
people,  there  we  stand.  [Enthusiastic  cheers.]     Whether  in 
victory  or  in  defeat  there  we  stand,  and,  as  said  the  Apostle, 
"  having  done  all,  still  there  we  will  stand,  and  because  of 
our  love  and  of  our  faith."     The  affection  of  our  hearts  and 
the  judgment  of  our  intellects  bound  our  political  fortunes  to 
William  Henry  Seward,  of  New  York  [Cheers]  ;  him,  who  is 
the  brightest  and  most  shining  light  of  this  political  genera- 
tion [Applause  and  cheers]  ;  him,  who  by  the  unanimous  se- 
lection of  the  foes  of  our  cause  and  our  men,  has  for  years 
been  the  determined  standard-bearer  of  liberty,  William  H. 
Seward.  [Loud  cheers.]     Whether  in  the  legislature  of  his 
native  State  of  New  York,  whether  as  Governor  of  that  young 
and  growing  imperial  commonwealth,  whether  as  Senator  of 
the  United  States,  or  as  a  Tribune  of  the  people,  ever  faithful, 
ever  true.  [Cheers.]     In  the  thickest  and  the  hottest  of  every 
battle  there  waved  the  white  plume  of  the  gallant  leader  of 
New  York.  [Cheers.]     And,  gentlemen,  by  no  hand  of  Mas- 
sachusetts was  it  for  him  to  be  stricken  down.     Dearly  as  we 
love  triumph,  we  are  used  to  momentary  defeat,  because  we 
know  we  are  right;  and  whatever  storms  assail  our  ship,  be- 
fore whatever  gales  she  may  reel  and  quake,  we  know  that 
if  the  bark  sinks  it  is  but  to  another  sea.     We  know  that  this 
cause  of  ours  is  bound  to  triumph,  and  that  the  American 
people  will,  one  day,  be  convinced,  if  not  in  I860,  that  the 
path  of  duty  and  patriotism  leads  in  the  direction  of  the  Re- 
publican cause.     It  was  not  for  us  to  strike  down  William 
Henry  Seward,  of  New  York.     But,  Mr.  President,  and  gen- 
tlemen, as  we  love  the  cause,  and  as  we  respect  our  own  con- 
victions, and  as  we  mean  to  be  faithful  to  the  only  organiza- 
tion on  earth  which  is  in  the  van  of  the  cause  of  freedom,  so 
do  we,  with  entire  fidelity  of  heart,  with  entire  concurrence 
of  judgment  with  the  firmest  and  most  fixed  purpose  of  our 
will,  adopt  the  opinion  of  the  majority  of  the  convention  of 
16 


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delegates,  to  which  the  American  people  have  assigned  the 
duty  of  selection  ;  and  as  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois,  is  the 
choice  of  the  National  Republican  Convention,  Abraham  Lin- 
coln is  at  this  moment  the  first  choice  of  the  Republicans  of 
Massachusetts.  [Enthusiastic  cheers.]  We  wheel  into  line  as 
one  man,  and  we  will  roll  up  our  100,000  majority,  and  we 
will  give  our  13  electoral  votes,  and  we  will  show  you  that 
the  "  Irrepressible  Conflict"  is  the  "  manifest  destiny  of  the 
Democracy."  [Cheers.]  The  Republican  party  is  to-day, 
gentlemen,  the  only  united  national  party  in  America.  It  is 
the  cause  of  liberty.  By  universal  concession,  it  is  the  cause 
of  the  Union,  as  it  is  the  only  party  in  the  nation  which  stands 
by  the  Union  and  holds  no  secessionist  in  his  rank.  Now, 
since  the  result  (if  it  may  be  called  a  result),  is  known  of  the 
Convention  at  Charleston,  the  Democratic  party  is  the  only 
secession  party  in  existence.  That  Democracy,  which,  with 
proud  defiance,  has  arrogated  constant  title  of  "  National," 
exists  only  to-day  in  two  sections,  one  of  which  is  absolutely 
devoted  to  slavery,  and  the  other  of  which  is  opposed  to 
liberty.  [Loud  cheers  and  laughter.]  Against  that  party,  Mr. 
President  and  gentlemen,  and  against  all  those  who  hold  its 
dogmas,  or  preach  its  heresies,  with  whatever  associates,  and 
under  whatever  lead,  Massachusetts  comes  into  the  line,  and 
under  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois,  we  are  bound  to  march 
with  you  to  victory.  [Tremendous  cheers.] 

Mr.  CARL  SCHURZ  :  Mr.  President,  I  am  commissioned  by 
the  delegation  of  Wisconsin  to  second  the  motion  made 
by  the  distinguished  gentleman  from  New  York.  The  dele- 
gates of  Wisconsin  were  directed  to  cast  their  votes  unani- 
mously for  William  H.  Seward,  and  it  is  unnecessary  to  say 
that  the  instructions  we  received  added  but  solemn  obliga- 
tions of  our  constituents  to  the  spontaneous  impulses  of  our 
hearts.  [Great  applause.]  It  would  be  needless  to  say  any- 
thing in  praise  of  Mr.  Seward.  His  claims  stand  recorded  in 
the  annals  of  the  country,  and  they  are  reported  in  the  hearts 
of  the  people.  He  needs  no  eulogy  here,  and  my  vote  can 


add  nothing  to  so  powerful  a  testimony.  We,  gentlemen, 
went  for  him  because  we  considered  him  the  foremost  among 
the  best,  and  to  whatever  may  be  said  in  his  praise  I  will  add 
but  one  thing.  I  now  am  speaking  in  the  spirit  of  Mr.  Sew- 
ard,  when  I  say  that  his  ambition  will  be  satisfied  with  the 
success  of  the  cause  which  was  the  dream  of  his  youth,  and 
to  which  he  has  devoted  all  the  days  of  his  manhood — even  if 
the  name  of  Wm.  H.  Seward  should  remain  in  history  an  in- 
•  stance  of  the  highest  merit  uncrowned  with  the  highest  honor. 
Gentlemen,  we  stood  by  Mr.  Seward  to  the  last,  and  I  tell 
you  we  stand  by  him  now  in  supporting  Mr.  Lincoln.  [Ap- 
plause.] With  the  platform  we  adopted  yesterday,  and  with 
the  candidate  who  so  fairly  represents  it,  as  Mr.  Lincoln  does, 
we  defy  all  the  passion  and  prejudice  that  may  be  enforced 
against  us  by  our  opponents.  We  defy  the  whole  slave 
power  and  the  whole  vassalage  of  hell.  [Cheers  universally 
prevailing.]  Aye,  and  we  defy  the  "Little  Giant"  himself. 
[Applause.]  Again,  do  we  stand  by  Mr.  Seward  as  we  did 
before — for  we  know  that  he  will  be  at  the  head  of  our 
column,  joining  in  the  battle  cry  that  joins  us  now,  "Lincoln 
and  Victory."  [Great  applause.] 

Mr.  AUSTIN  BLAIR,  of  Michigan :  Gentlemen  of  the  Con- 
vention :  Like  my  friend  who  has  just  taken  his  seat,  the 
State  of  Michigan,  from  first  to  last,  has  cast  her  vote  for  the 
great  statesman  of  New  York.  She  has  nothing  to  take  back. 
She  has  not  sent  me  forward  to  worship  the  rising  sun,  but 
she  has  put  me  forward  to  say  that,  at  your  behests  here  to- 
day, she  lays  down  her  first,  best  loved  candidate  to  take  up 
yours,  with  some  bleeding  of  the  heart,  with  some  quivering 
in  the  veins ;  [Much  applause]  but  she  does  not  fear  that 
the  fame  of  Seward  will  suffer,  for  she  knows  that  his  fame  is 
a  portion  of  the  history  of  the  American  Union ;  it  will  be 
written  and  read  and  beloved  long  after  the  temporary  excite- 
ment of  this  day  has  passed  away,  and  when  Presidents  are 
themselves  forgotten  in  the  oblivion  which  comes  over  all 


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temporal  things.  We  stand  by  him  still.  We  have  followed 
him  with  a  single  eye  and  with  unwavering  faith  in  times 
past.  We  marshal  now  behind  him  in  the  grand  column 
which  shall  go  out  to  battle  for  Abraham  Lincoln  of  Illinois, 
and  to  conquer;  for,  mark  you,  what  has  happened  to-day 
will  happen  in  November  next — Lincoln  will  be  elected  with 
just  such  a  shout  as  has  been  given  to-day  in  this  vast  assem- 
blage. We  say  of  our  candidate,  God  bless  his  magnanimous 
soul.  [Tremendous  applause.]  I  promise  you  that  in  the 
State  of  Michigan,  which  I  have  the  honor  to  represent, 
where  the  Republican  party  from  the  days  of  its  organization 
to  this  hour  never  suffered  a  single  defeat,  but  has  carried  this 
standard  with  an  increasing  triumph  from  that  day  to  this* 
we  will  give  you  for  the  gallant  son  of  Illinois,  and  glorious 
standard-bearer  of  the  West,  a  round  twenty-five  thousand 
majority. 

Mr.  EVARTS  :  I  have  no  wish  to  cut  short  any  speeches  of 
a  general  character,  that  are  desired  to  be  made,  but  I  would 
suggest  to  the  Convention  that  we  have,  perhaps,  given  a 
liberal  share  of  our  time  to  this  enthusiasm  at  this  stage  in 
the  performance  of  our  duty.  I  rise,  sir,  merely  to  make  a 
suggestion,  and  a  motion,  in  regard  to  the  subject  of  Vice- 
President  and  the  adjournment  of  the  Convention.  Will  the 
Convention  allow  me  to  do  so  ? 

Mr.  JUDD  :  Illinois  desires  to  respond  by  Mr.  Browning  for 
a  few  moments. 

Mr.  EVARTS:  I  did  not  exactly  understand  the  nature  of 
my  friend's  suggestion,  but  I  suppose,  from  what  has  passed 
between  him  and  myself,  that  I  gather  its  purport,  and  if  he 
prefers  that  Mr.  Browning  should  speak  now,  before  I  make 
my  business  motions,  it  is  all  the  same  to  me.  [Voices,  "  Go 
on."]  If  I  go  on,  he  can  have  an  opportunity  to  say  what 
he  wishes  to  say  afterwards.  Now,  Mr.  Chairman,  it  is  half 
past  one  o'clock,  and  I  think  we  require  as  much  time  as 


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from  now  till  5  o'clock,  for  the  recess  of  this  Convention.  I 
would  suggest,  if  no  more  desirable  or  rapid  plan  can  be 
named,  that  the  Chairman  of  each  delegation,  States  and 
Territories,  here  present,  meet  at  some  hour  in  the  interval, 
at  the  head-quarters  of  the  New  York  delegation,  at  the  Rich- 
mond House.  Is  that  agreeable  and  convenient?  [Voices, 
"  agreed."]  I  would  suggest,  then,  that  they  should  meet  at 
that  place  as  early  as  three  o'clock.  Is  that  suitable? 
[Voices,  "  Yes,"  and  "All  right."]  Then  allow  me  to  say  to 
our  own  delegation  that  I  wish  they  would  meet  at  the  same 
place,  the  head-quarters  of  our  delegation,  at  the  Richmond 
House,  immediately  after  the  adjournment  of  the  Convention. 

I  shall  move  sir,  now,  that  when  this  Convention  adjourns, 
it  adjourns  to  meet  at  5  o'clock,  and  that  the  balloting  for 
Vice-President  be  laid  over  during  recess. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Evarts  was  carried. 

Mr.  EVARTS  :  Now,  Mr.  Chairman,  allow  me  to  say  that  I 
have  been  in  error  or  out  of  order  all  the  time,  and  you  with 
me  also.  The  motion  that  I  made,  that  the  nomination  be 
made  unanimous,  has  not  yet  been  put,  I  suppose  a  speech 
from  my  friend  from  Illinois  will  be  in  order. 

THE  PRESIDENT  :  The  Chair  begs  leave  to  state  that  the 
gentleman  has  not  been  out  of  order. 

Mr.  EVARTS  :  I  am  very  glad  to  hear  it. 

Mr.  BROWNING,  of  Illinois :  Mr.  President  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention :  On  behalf  of  the  Illinois  delegation  I 
have  been  requested  to  make  some  proper  response  to  the 
speeches  that  we  have  heard  from  our  friends  of  the  other 
States.  Illinois  ought  hardly  on  this  occasion  to  be  expected 
to  make  a  speech,  or  called  upon  to  do  so.  We  are  so  much 
elated  at  present  that  we  are  scarcely  in  a  condition  to  collect 
our  own  thoughts,  or  to  express  them  intelligently  to  those 
who  may  listen  to  us.  I  desire  to  say,  gentlemen  of  the 


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Convention,  that  in  the  contest  through  which  we  have  just 
passed,  we  have  been  actuated  by  no  feeling  of  hostility  to 
the  illustrious  statesman  from  New  York,  who  was  in  compe- 
tition with  our  own  loved  and  gallant  son.     We  were  actu- 
ated solely  by  a  desire  for  the  certain  advancement  of  Repub- 
licanism.    The  Republicans  of  Illinois,  believing  the  principles 
of  the  Republican  party  are  the   same  principles  which  in- 
flamed the  hearts  and  nerved  the  arms  of  our  patriot  sires  in 
the  Revolution ;    that  they  have  the  same  principles  which 
were  vindicated  upon  every  battle  field  of  American  freedom. 
In  the  contest  through  which  we  have  just  passed  we  were 
actuated  solely  by  the  conviction  that  the  triumph  of  these 
principles  was  necessary,  not  only  to  the  salvation  of  our 
party,  but  to  the  perpetuation  of  the  free  institutions  whose 
blessings  we  now  enjoy,  and  we  have  struggled  against  the 
nomination  of  the  illustrious  statesman  of  New  York,  solely 
because  we  believed  here  that  we  could  go  into  battle  on  the 
prairies  of  Illinois  with  more  hope  and  more  prospect  of  suc- 
cess under  the  leadership  of  our  own  noble  son.     No  Repub1 
lican  who  has  a  love  of  freedom  in  his  heart,   and  who  has 
marked  the  course  of  Gov.  Seward,   of   New  York,  in  the 
councils  of  our  nation,  who  has  witnessed  the  many  occasions 
upon  which  he  has  risen  to  the  very  height  of  moral  sublimity 
in  his  conflicts  with  the  enemies  of  free  institutions ;  no  heart 
that  has  the  love  of  freedom  in  it,  and  has  witnessed  these 
great  conflicts  of  his,  can  do  otherwise  than  venerate  his 
name.     On  this  occasion,  I  desire  to  say,  only,  that  the  hearts 
of  the  Illinois  delegation  are  to-day  filled  with  emotions  of 
gratification  for  which  they  have  no  utterance.     We  are  not 
more  overcome  by  the  triumph  of  our  noble  Lincoln,  loving 
him  as  we  do,  knowing  the  purity  of  his  past  life,  the  integ- 
rity of  his  character,  and  devotion  to  the  principles  of  our 
party,  and  the  gallantry  with  which  we  will  be  conducted 
through  this  contest,  than  we  are  by  the  magnanimity  of  our 
friends  of  the  great  and  glorious  State  of  New  York  in  mov- 
ing to  make  this  nomination  unanimous.     On  behalf  of  the 
delegation,  from  Illinois,  for  the  Republican   party  of  this 


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great  and  growing  Prairie  State,  I  return  to  all  our  friends, 
New  York  included,  our  heartfelt  thanks  and  gratitude  for  the 
nomination  of  this  Convention. 

The  Convention  then  adjourned  until  5  o'clock,  p.  M. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

The  Convention  re-assembled  and  was  called  to  order  by 
the  President  at  5  o'clock. 

THE  CHAIR  announced  that  the  first  business  in  order  was 
to  proceed  to  ballot  for  a  candidate  for  Vice- President  of  the 
United  States. 

Mr.  WILDER,  of  Kansas:  Mr.  Chairman,  in  behalf  of  the 
Kansas  delegation,  I  am  commissioned  to  nominate  John 
Hickman,  of  Pennsylvania,  as  the  candidate  of  the  Republi- 
can party  for  the  office  of  Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 
[Loud  and  prolonged  applause.] 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio  :  I  will  present  the  name  of  Senator 
Hannibal  Hamlin  of  Maine.  [Great  cheering.] 

Mr.  LEWIS,  of  Pennsylvania :  I  second  the  nomination  of 
John  Hickman  of  Pennsylvania.  [Applause.] 

Gov.  BOUTWELL,  of  Massachusetts:  Mr.  President  —  In 
behalf  of  a  large  majority  of  the  delegation  from  Massachu- 
setts, and  in  behalf,  I  believe  of  a  great  majority  of  the  people 
of  that  Commonwealth  and  New  England,  I  present  the 
name  of  the  iron  man  of  Massachusetts,  Nathaniel  P.  Banks. 
[Loud  applause.] 

Mr.  CALEB  B.  SMITH,  of  Indiana :  In  behalf  of  a  large 
number  of  the  Indiana  delegation,  I  present  the  name  of  the 
gallant  son  of  Kentucky,  Cassius  M.  Clay.  [Enthusiastic 
cheers.] 


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A  DELEGATE  from  Virginia :  With  all  my  heart  I  second 
the  nomination  of  Cassius  M.  Clay. 

Mr.  LOWRY  of  Pennsylvania:  Mr.  Chairman,  I  nominate 
Andrew  H.  Reeder  of  Pennsylvania  and  late  Governor  of 
Kansas.  [Loud  applause.] 

The  Convention  then  proceeded  to  ballot  as  follows,  Mr. 
BURGESS  being  in  the  Chair: 

>>  A 

STATES-       Sill   i  i  i  t  I 

*:  rt  o  ~  Socjceo 

OK«£  HtffiPH 

Maine, 16 

New  Hampshire, 10 

Vermont, 10 

Massachusetts,  . .        . .       20      1       1         1     . .     

Rhode  Island, 8 

Connecticut,. 2        1     ..       2        5 

New  York, •        9        4      2    11  35      1      8     ..     .. 

New  Jersey, 1       ..       7..         6 

Pennsylvania,...          4£      2£  24      7  11     ....       3     .. 

Maryland, 2       ....       1        8 

Delaware, 3       ..     ..       1        2 

Virginia, 23      

Kentucky, 23       

Ohio, 46 

Indiana, 18       8 

Missouri, 9     ..       9       

Michigan, 4       8 

Illinois, 2       ..16      2        2 

Texas, 6 

Wisconsin, 5       5 

Iowa, 1       1     ..         6 

California, 8       

Minnesota, 1       ..     ..       1        6 

Oregon, 1     ..      3        1 


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TERRITORIES.  g       2 

^1              ~              *O             M  »o              JS              *j 

S            =            -  o            >            >> 

•             3             f          3  «cc!r:0 

OKKft  ft«OQC 

Kansas, 6       , 

Nebraska, 1       ..     ..       5       

Dist.  of  Columbia,          2       


Total, 101£    38.^51    58    194      1       8      3      6 

The  PRESIDENT — (the  result  having  been  announced,) — No 
one  having  received  a  ranjority,  the  roll  will  be  called  again 
for  a  second  ballot. 

The  Convention  then  proceeded  to  a  second  ballot,  which 
resulted  as  follows: 

STATES.  Hamlin.  Clay.  Hickman. 

Maine, 16 

New  Hampshire, 10 

Massachusetts, 2G 

Vermont, 10 

Rhode  Island, 8 

Connecticut, 10  ..  2 

New  York, 70 

New  Jersey, 14 

Pennsylvania, 54 

Maryland, 10  1 

Delaware, 6 

Virginia, 23 

Kentucky, 23 

Ohio, .* 46 

Indiana, 12  14 

Missouri, 13  5 

Michigan, 8  4 

Illinois, 20  2 

Texas, 6 

Wisconsin, 5  5 

Iowa,   8 

California, 7  1 

17 


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STATES.  H.imlin.  Clay.  Hickman. 

Minnesota, 7  t 

Oregon, 3  ..  2 

TERRITORIES. 

Kansas, 213 

Nebraska, ..  G 

District  of  Columbia, 2 

367  S6  13       * 

Pending  the  ballot,  when  Massachusetts  was  called, 

Mr.  ANDREW,  Chairman  of  the  delegation,  said :  The  State 
of  Massachusetts  withdraws  the  name  of  Nathaniel  P.  Banks, 
and  casts  her  vote  for  Mr.  Hamlin.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  KELLEY,  of  Pennsylvania,  withdrew  the  name  of  Gov. 
Reeder  of  Pennsylvania. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  We  have  a  despatch  from  Detroit  which 
I  wish  to  read  : 

To   the    Republican   Convention    assembled  in   the    Republican   Wigwam    at 
Chicago,  greeting : 

One  hundred  guns  are  how  being  fired  in  honor  of  the 
nomination  of  Lincoln.  [Immense  applause.] 

THE  RESULT. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  The  result  of  the  last  ballot,  gentlemen* 
I  will  now  announce.  There  were  cast  466  votes,  234  are 
necessary  for  a  choice.  Hannibal  Hamlin  of  Maine  has 
received  367  votes,  and  is  nominated  as  the  candidate  of  the 
Republican  party  for  Vice-President. 

Mr.  BLAKEY,  of  Kentucky  :  In  behalf  of  the  friends  of  that 
gallant  son  of  freedom,  Cassius  M.  Clay,  I  move  that  the 
nomination  of  Hannibal  Hamlin,  of  Maine,  be  made  unani- 
mous, and  in  retiring  from  this  Convention  at  its  close,  allow 
me  to  return  those  who  have  honored  him  with  their  votes, 
an  assurance  of  his  regards  ;  assuring  them  at  the  same  time 


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thafc  in  casting  their  votes  for  that  gallant  son,  they  have 
voted  for  a  man  whose  only  crime  has  been  that  he  has  rolled 
freedom  as  a  sweet  morsel  under  his  tongue,  while  on  his  lips 
liberty  has  loved  to  linger.  [Great  applause.] 

Mr.  CURTIS,  of  New  York,  called   for    three   cheers   for 
Cassius  M.  Clay,  which  was  promptly  responded  to. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  It  has  been  moved  and  seconded  that  the 
nomination  of  Mr.  Hamlin  be  made  unanimous. 

Mr.  C.  B.  SMITH,  of  Indiana:  As  I  had  the  honor  of  pre- 
senting to  this  Convention  the  name  of  Cassius  M.  Clay,  of 
Kentucky,  as  a  candidate  for  nomination  for  the  office  of  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States,  I  deem  it  proper  that  I  should 
second  the  motion  made  by  the  gentleman  from  Kentucky  to 
make  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Hamlin  unanimous.  In  second- 
ing this  motion  I  beg  leave  to  state  that  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Republicans  of  the  State  which  I  in  part  represent,  there  is 
no  one  of  the  many  distinguished  advocates  of  the  Republi- 
can party,  no  one  of  that  illustrious  band  who  are  contending 
for  the  principle  of  freedom,  who  is  more  endeared  to  the 
great  heart  of  the  Republicans  of  this  country  than  is  Cassius 
M.  Clay.  It  is  a  very  easy  matter  for  us  who  live  upon  soil 
unstained  by  slavery  ;  who  breathe  the  free  air  of  States 
where  the  manacles  of  the  slave  are  never  seen,  and  their 
waitings  are  never  heard,  to  advocate  the  principles  of  the 
Republican  party  ;  but,  gentlemen,  to  advocate  those  princi- 
ples upon  the  soil  of  slavery  itself,  in  the  very  face  and 
shadows  of  their  altars  and  false  gods,  requires  a  degree  of 
moral  heroism  of  which  but  few  of  us  can  boast.  I  have  an 
assurance  that  this  cause  will  triumph,  and  that  the  flag  of 
freedom  will  wave  in  triumph  over  the  land.  [Loud  applause.] 
Let  me  assure  you,  gentlemen,  when  that  banner  which  is 
now  trailing  in  the  dust  shall  be  borne  aloft  in  triumph,  and 
its  glorious  folds  shall  be  expanded  to  the  winds  of  heaven, 
you  will  see  inscribed  upon  its  brightest  folds  in  characters  of 
living  light  the  name  of  Cassius  M.  Clay.  [Great  applause.] 


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We  have  now  completed  the  great  work  for  which  we  assem- 
bled here.  We  have  presented  to  this  country  a  ticket  which 
will  command  the  love  and  admiration  of  Republicans  every- 
where, and  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the  entire  country. 
[Applause.]  In  leaving  this  city,  and  this  large  and  tumul- 
tous  assembly,  I  shall  leave  it  with  an  abiding  confidence 
that  that  ticket  will  be  triumphant ;  for  let  me  assure  you 
that  with  the  gallant  son  of  Illinois  as  our  standard-bearer; 
with  the  distinguished  Senator  from  Maine;  with  the  platform 
which  we  have  adopted,  I  feel  that  we  stand  upon  a  rock  and 
the  gates  of  hell  cannot  prevail  against  it.  In  behalf  of  my 
friends  of  Indiana,  I  would  say  that  in  any  efforts  which  we 
have  made  to  secure  the  nomination  of  Abraham  Lincoln  of 
Illinois,  we  have  been  animated  by  no  feeling  of  animosity 
toward  the  distinguished  son  of  New  York,  for  in  no  single 
State  of  the  Union  is  the  name  of  Wm.  H.  Seward  more 
highly  honored  than  in  Indiana.  [Applause.]  We  would  not, 
if  we  could,  pluck  one  leaf  from  the  laurel  that  adorns  his 
brow  ;  we  would  not  tarnish  one  letter  in  the  history  which 
will  render  his  name  illustrious  in  all  coming  time.  It  is  not 
that  we  have  loved  Seward  less,  but  because  we  have  loved 
the  great  Republican  cause  more,  and  because,  under  the 
leadership  of  the  gallant  son  of  Illinois,  whom,  thirty  years  ago 
on  the  southern  frontier  of  Indiana  you  might  have  seen  a 
humble,  ragged  boy,  barefooted,  driving  his  oxen  through  the 
mountains,  and  who,  by  his  own  exertions,  has  elevated  him- 
self to  the  pinnacle  which  has  now  presented  him  as  the 
candidate  of  this  Convention.  He  is  a  living  illustration  of 
that  spirit  of  enterprise  which  characterizes  the  West,  and 
every  western  heart  will  throb  with  joy  when  the  name  of 
Lincoln  shall  be  presented  to  them  as  the  candidate  of  the 
Republican  party.  [Great  and  long  continued  applause.]  In 
conclusion,  I  assure  you  that  the  Republican  flag  will  wave 
in  triumph  upon  the  soil  of  Indiana. 

Mr.  McCRiLLis,  of  Maine  :  Mr.  President,  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention — I  will  detain  you  but  a  single  moment. 


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I  wish  in  the  first  place  to  make  an  acknowledgment  in 
behalf  of  the  people  of  Maine  for  the  honor  that  this  Conven- 
tion has  conferred  on  them  by  selecting  one  of  her  distin- 
guished sons  as  the  candidate  for  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States.  Mr.  President,  the  people  of  Maine  were  the  ardent 
admirers  and  friends  of  William  H.  Sevvard.  [Applause  and 
cheers.]  They  believed  that  the  candidate  which  this  Con- 
vention would  nominate  would  surely  be  the  next  President 
of  these  United  States,  and  they  charged  their  delegation  that 
above  alt  things  they  should  select  a  man  loyal  to  the  spirit 
of  human  liberty — loyal  to  the  spirit  of  free  government, 
loyal  to  the  principles  upon  which  our  fathers  laid  deep  the 
foundations  of  this  great  empire — loyal  to  the  Constitution 
and  loyal  to  the  Union  of  these  States.  And,  Mr.  Chairman, 
they  believe  that  in  the  person  of  William  H.  Seward,  the 
great  Senator  of  New  York,  all  these  great  qualities  were 
combined  in  addition  to  his  eminent  and  distinguished  ser- 
vices to  the  Republican  cause,  and  his  exalted  statesmanship. 
[Loud  cheers.] 

Mr.  President,  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention — However 
earnest  we  may  have  been  in  pressing  the  claims  of  our 
particular  candidates,  when  the  President  of  the  Convention 
announced  the  result,  all  partizan  feelings  and  differences  sub- 
sided and  we  stood  together  as  a  band  of  brethren,  as  a  united 
phalanx.  And  when  the  electric  spark  shall  convey  the  in- 
telligence of  the  nomination  to  the  remotest  portions  of  this 
Republic,  every  Republican  will  stand  by  his  fellow,  forming 
a  united  phalanx,  and  elect  the  nominees.  Illinois  and  Maine 
are  not  only  sisters  in  the  great  family  of  states,  they  are  not 
only  sisters  under  the  Constitution — sisters-in-law,  but  they 
are  by  kindred  and  by  blood.  Of  the  people  of  New  Eng- 
land thousands  upon  thousands  are  our  brethren  and  sisters 
who  have  emigrated  to  Illinois  and  are  scattered  throughout 
the  great  West.  And  here,  sir,  they  are  among  the  living, 
and  here  their  bones  repose  among  the  dead.  In  1856,  the 
man  who  is  now  your  candidate  for  the  Vice-Presidency  of 
the  United  States,  resigned  his  seat  as  Chairman  of  the  Com- 


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mittee  on  Commerce  in  the  United  States  Senate,  and  was 
nominated  for  Governor  of  the  State  of  Maine.  Maine  led 
the  van  in  the  conflict.  In  September  of  that  year  Maine 
electrified  the  nation  by  a  vote  of  20,000  majority.  She  led 
the  van  in  that  great  fight.  She  was  the  star  in  the  East — 
the  bright  star  that  illuminated  the  whole  Northern  horizon; 
she  was  the  star  of  hope — like  the  star  of  Bethlehem.  She 
came  over  and  stood  by  the  cause  of  freedom  with  her  young 
and  gallant  leader.  Mr.  Chairman,  I  know  the  people  of 
Maine  well.  I  know  that  they  will  give  a  cordial  and  united 
support  to  this  ticket.  I  know  that  from  every  hill,  from 
every  valley,  and  from  every  mountain — and  along  her  rivers 
— along  her  rock-bound  coast,  the  nomination  of  Abraham 
Lincoln  will  be  hailed  with  one  spontaneous,  loud,  long  and 
continued  shout  of  enthusiasm  and  applause;  and  that  the 
people  will  inscribe  on  her  banner,  "Lincoln  and  Hamlin — 
Union  and  Victory."  [Tumultuous  applause.] 

The  motion  to  make  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Hamlin  unani- 
mous was  then  put  to  vote,  and  carried  with  the  greatest 
enthusiasm. 

Loud  cries  of  "  Corwin,"  "  Corwin." 

Mr.  CARTER,  of  Ohio:  I  desire  to  make  an  apology  for  my 
colleague.  Mr.  Corwin  has  been  very  frequently  called  for  in 
this  assembly  with  the  view  of  eliciting  a  response  from  him. 
He  is  now  lying  indisposed  upon  his  back  at  a  private  resi- 
dence in  this  town,  and  he  requested  me  to  make  this  apology 
if  he  should  be  called  upon ;  and  at  the  same  time  to  give 
the  Republicans  here  assembled  the  assurance  of  his  full 
approbation  of  what  has  transpired  here ;  and  the  further 
assurance  of  his  labor  throughout  this  campaign.  [Applause 
and  cries  of  "  good,"  "good,"  "Corwin  forever."] 

Mr.  TUCK,  of  New  Hampshire :  Mr.  President,  I  offer  the 
following  resolution  : 

Resolved,  Tiiat  the  President  of  this  Convention,  and  the 


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Chairmen  of  the  respective  delegations,  be  appointed  a  com- 
mittee to  notify  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois,  and  Hannibal 
Hamlin,  of  Maine,  of  their  nomination  by  this  Convention  as 
the  candidates  of  the  Republican  party  for  the  offices,  respec- 
tively, of  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 

A  DELEGATE  :  I  move  to  amend,  by  inserting  the  word 
"  unanimous"  before  "nomination." 

The  amendment  was  accepted,  and  the  resolution  adopted 
unanimously. 

A  RESOLUTION. 

Mr.  GIDDIXGS,  of  Ohio  :  I  offer  the  following  resolution  : 
Resolved,  That  we  deeply  sympathise  with  those  men  who 
have  been  driven,  some  from  their  native  States,  and  others 
from  the  States  of  their  adoption,  and  are  now  exiled  from 
their  homes  on  account  of  their  opinions ;  and  we  hold  the 
Democratic  party  responsible  for  these  gross  violations  of  that 
clause  of  the  Constitution  which  declares  that  the  citizens  of 
each  State  shall  be  entitled  to  all  the  privileges  and  immuni- 
ties of  citizens  in  the  several  States. 
Resolution  adopted. 

Hon.  HEXRY  S.  LANE,  of  Indiana,  was  called  for,  and  was 
received  with  many  cheers.  He  said  :  Freemen  of  the  United 
States,  you  have  to-day  inaugurated  a  grand  work.  No  event 
in  the  history  of  the  United  States,  subsequent  to  the  Decla- 
ration of  Independence,  is  more  sublime  and  impressive  than 
the  event  which  has  this  day  been  inaugurated  in  this  vast 
presence  of  the  freemen  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
Into  your  hands  this  day  is  placed  the  grand  responsibility  of 
bearing  the  torch  of  civilization  in  the  vanguard  of  freedom. 
I  ask  you  to  bear  it  aloft  and  upward  in  the  light  of  free 
institutions,  until  the  whole  world  shall  glow  with  the  light 
of  our  illumination.  My  fellow  citizens,  the  work  commenced 
to-day  shall  go  on,  until  complete  victory  shall  await  our 
efforts  in  November.  The  position  of  many  of  the  States  of 


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the  West  may  have  been  misunderstood.  We  regard  to-day 
William  H.  Seward  as  the  grandest  representative  of  the 
liberty-loving  instincts  of  the  human  heart  which  exists  in 
the  United  States.  In  our  heart  of  hearts  we  love  him,  and 
would  make  him  President  to-day,  if  we  had  the  power  so  to 
do  ;  but  we  regard  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois,  as  an  equally 
orthodox  representative  of  Republican  principles,  and  the  most 
beautiful  illustration  of  the  power  of  free  institutions  and  the 
dignity  of  free  labor  in  the  United  States.  My  fellow  citizens, 
it  is  not  my  purpose  at  this  late  hour  further  to  detain  you 
In  the  present  contest  is  involved  not  only  the  well  being,  but 
the  very  existence  of  the  Government  under  which  we  live. 
I  ask  you,  by  your  action,  to  sternly  rebuke  the  disunion  spirit 
which  now  disgraces  the  politics  of  the  United  States,  and  to 
burn,  hissing  hot,  into  the  brazen  front  of  Southern  Democracy 
the  brand  of  disunion,  as  God  marked  Cain,  the  first  murderer. 
[Great  applause.]  My  fellow  citizens,  I  find  myself  unable, 
after  the  eloquent  responses  to  which  you  have  listened  this 
day,  to  express  to  you  the  sentiments  which  are  in  my  heart. 
Massachusetts  has  responded  to  this  nomination ;  old  Faneuil 
Hall,  where  the  Revolution  was  born,  and  where  the  power 
of  British  supremacy  was  made  to  rock  and  reel  in  1769,  has 
responded  ;  New  York,  the  Empire  State ;  the  noble  Com- 
monwealth of  Kentucky  ;  the  Grand  Prairie  State  of  Illinois ; 
and  Virginia,  the  mother  of  States,  have  responded.  We  shake 
hands  and  pledge  ourselves  to  labor  until  a  complete  triumph 
shall  await  our  efforts  in  November.  My  fellow  citizens,  some 
doubts  have  been  expressed  in  reference  to  Indiana.  It  is  a 
slander  upon  Indiana.  I  pledge  Indiana  by  ten  thousand 
majority.  [Great  and  enthusiastic  applause.]  I  pledge  my 
personal  honor  for  the  redemption  of  that  State.  [Renewed 
applause.] 

THE  NATIONAL  COMMITTEE. 

A  DELEGATE  from  Indiana:  I  move  that  the  roll  be  called, 
and  that  each  delegation  appoint  a  member  of  the  National 
Committee. 


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The  roll  was  then  called,  and  the  following  gentlemen  were 
selected  by  the  respective  delegations : 

Maine, Charles  G.  Gillman. 

New  Hampshire, George  G.  Fogg. 

Vermont, Lawrence  Brainerd. 

MastacAtuetts, John  Z.  Goodrich. 

Rhode  Island, Thomas  G.  Turner. 

Connecticut, Gideon  Welles. 

New  York, Edwin  D.  Morgan. 

New  Jersey, Denning  Duer. 

Pennsylvania, Edward  McPherson. 

Maryland, James  F.  Wagner. 

Delaware,   N.  B.  Smithers. 

Virginia, Alfred  Caldwell. 

Kentucky, Cassias  M.  Clay. 

Ohio, Thomas  Spooner. 

Indiana, Solomon  Meredith. 

Missouri, Asa  S.  Jones. 

Michigan, Austin  Blair. 

Illinois, Norman  B.  Judd. 

Texas, D.  Henderson. 

Wisconsin, Carl  Schurz. 

Iowa, Andrew  J.  Stevens. 

California, D.  W.  Cheeseman. 

Minnesota, John  McKusick. 

Oregon, \V.  Carey  Johnson. 

Kansas, William  A.  Phillips. 

Nebraska, 0.  H.  Irish. 

Dis.  Columbia, John  Gerhardt. 

Mr.  GOODRICH,  of  Minnesota:  I  am  requested  to  state  to 
this  Convention,  and  to  the  citizens  and  strangers,  ladies  and 
gentlemen  in  attendance,  that  a  triumphal  procession  will 
form  at  the  head  of  Washington  street,  on  Michigan  avenue, 
at  8  o'clock  this  evening;  and  will  march  thence  to  Lake 
street,  thence  down  to  Dearborn  street  to  Randolph,  up  Ran- 
dolph to  Franklin,  thence  to  Lake  street,  and  thence  to  this 
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13S 

Wigwam,  or  Tabernacle,  where  delegations,  citizens  and 
strangers  are  invited  to  join  in  one  grand  ratification  of  the 
nominations  made  to-day.  [Applause.] 

A  DELEGATE  :  Mr.  President — 

Mr.  GOODRICH:  I  am  yet  charged  with  other  matters.  Be 
yet  patient.  I  desire  now  to  offer  a  resolution  that  I  doubt 
not  will  meet  with  the  cordial — [great  confusion,  and  mani- 
festations of  impatience  by  the  audience,] — I  don't  like  to 
speak  against  the  noise — that  will  meet  the  cordial  approba- 
tion of  every  gentleman  in  this  Convention. 

Resolved,  That  the  hospitality,  taste,  zeal  and  munificence 
displayed  by  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  the  city  of  Chicago, 
in  aid  of  the  great  Eepublican  cause,  challenges  the  admira- 
tion, and  deserves  the  hearty  thanks  of  this  Convention,  and 
of  the  party  throughout  the  United  States.  [Great  applause.] 

The  resolution  was  adopted  unanimously. 

Mr*  GOODRICH,  proceeding  without  having  resumed  his 
83at :  One  word  more,  Mr.  President — 

SEVERAL  VOICES:  Mr.  President — 

Mr.  GOODRICH:  Perhaps  the  gentleman  has  business  of 
greater  importance  and  of  much  more  pertinence  on  this 
occasion  than  anything  I  have  to  offer.  [The  tumult  here 
became  so  great  that  speaker's  voice  was  drowned  in  the 
noise.] 

Mr.  CALEB  B.  SMITH,  of  Indiana :  I  rise  to  a  point  of  order. 
The  gentleman  cannot  take  the  floor  in  this  manner  to  make 
a  motion,  and  then  keep  the  floor  as  long  as  he  desires  to 
make  other  motions. 

The  PRESIDENT  :  I  am  afraid  that  the  point  of  order  will 
take  up  more  time  even  than  the  gentleman  from  Minnesota. 
[Laughter.] 


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Mr.  GOODRICH  :  I  don't  desire  to  trespass  on  the  Conven- 
tion. I  will  state,  however,  to  the  gentleman  who  seems 
curious  in  this  behalf, — 

[The  audience  'here  became  impatient,  and  the  speaker's 
voice  was  lost  in  the  tumult.  Cries  of  "No  speech,"  "  Read 
your  resolution  and  sit  down,"  &c.] 

Mr.  GOODRICH  :  A  little  more  silence.  [Uproarious  and  de- 
risive laughter.]  I  have  been  desired  to  say  that,  inasmuch 
as  Minnesota  has  not  yet  responded  to  the  nominations  that 
have  been  made  to-day,  and  inasmuch  as  she  stood  up  to  the 
last  moment  for  New  York's  favorite  son  as  her  choice,  and 
in  doing  that  she  believed  that  she  was  doing  that  which  was 
right,  yet  she  bows  to  the  will  of  the  majority ;  and  I  am 
prepared  to  say  that,  however  much  she  regrets  the  defeat  of 
her  favorite  candidate,  the  vote  of  Minnesota  at  the  polls  will 
be  cast  for  Abraham  Lincoln,  of  Illinois;  [Applause;  "good," 
"good;"  "Now  stop;"]  and  that  though  the  delegates  here 
labored  for  their  first  choice,  yet  they  will  be  found  laboring 
with  equal  zeal  and  energy  for  the  nominee  of  this  Conven- 
tion. One  word  more.  ["No,  no,"  "Dry  up."]  I  am  not  in 
the  habit  of  being  halloed  down,  even  by  opponents,  and 
certainly  not  by  friends,  and  the  friends  of  the  cause  that  I 
claim  to  be  an  humble  advocate  of. 

A  VOICE  :  If  you  are  our  friend  let  us  go  home.  [Laughter.] 

Mr.  GOODRICH  :  The  representatives  from  Minnesota  feel 
that  a  seat  in  the  Presidential  chair  would  not  add  one  jot  to 
the  stature  of  William  H.  Seward.  Of  all  earthly  fame  has 
he  seen  the  vanity.  Lasting,  exalted  is  his  fame.  Whenever 
lofty  deeds — 

[The  audience  here  became  impatient  and  vociferous  in  their 
calls  to  proceed  to  business,  and  the  speaker  could  proceed 
no  further.] 

The  PRESIDENT  :  At  an  early  hour  in  the  session  of  the 
Convention,  two  communications  were  received — respectful 


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communications  from  two  Railroad  corporations,  offering  to 
the  Convention  an  opportunity  for  a  visit  to  the  Mississippi 
on  the  Chicago  and  Rock  Island  and  Chicago  and  Galena 
Railroads,  and  laid  on  the  table. 

Mr.  MUKPHY,  of  Michigan  :  I  have  a  resolution  of  accept- 
ance: 

Resolved,  That  the  invitation  of  the  officers  of  the  Chicago 
and  Rock  Island  and  Chicago  and  Galena  Union  Railroads, 
for  an  excursion  over  the  same,  by  the  members  of  the  Con- 
vention, be  accepted,  and  that  a  committee  of  three  be  ap- 
pointed to  notify  Mr.  Talcott  and  Mr.  Farnum  of  the  same. 

Resolution  adopted,  and  the  following  committee  appointed  : 
Messrs.  Murphy,  of  Michigan,  Judd,  of  Illinois,  and  Smith,  of 
Indiana. 

Mr.  WYSE,  of  the  District  of  Columbia:  I  rise  to  have  the 
record  put  right.  [Confusion,  amid  which  the  speaker  be- 
came quite  excited  ]  I  move  that  Mr.  Harrington's  name  as 
chairman  of  the  delegation  from  the  District  of  Columbia  be 
stricken  off,  and  Mr.  "Wyse's  name  be  put  in  instead. 

THE  PRESIDENT  :  Without  a  motion  to  reconsider,  the  mo- 
tion of  the  gentleman  (Mr.  Wyse)  cannot  be  put. 

Mr.  ASHLEY,  of  Ohio  :  I  propose  for  adoption  the  following 
resolution,  in  order  to  avoid  in  future  either  two  sets  of  dele- 
gates or  the  inequality  of  representation  in  the  Convention  : 

Resolved,  That  the  Republican  National  Committee,  ap- 
pointed by  this  Convention,  be  and  they  are  hereby  instructed 
to  prescribe  a  uniform  rule  that  shall  operate  equally  in  all 
the  States  and  Territories,  whereby  in  future  the  wishes  and 
preferences  of  the  electors  in  the  Republican  organization,  in 
the  choice  of  candidates  for  the  Presidency  and  Vice-Presi- 
dency, may  be  fully  and  fairly  ascertained,  and  that  the  basis 
of  the  nominating  vote  be  fixed  as  near  as  may  be  in  propor- 
tion to  the  number  of  Republican  electors  found  to  reside,  at 
the  last  general  State  election  preceding  the  nomination,  in 
each  Congressional  District  throughout  the  Union. 


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Mr.  BEXTOX,  of  New  Hampshire :  I  move  that  the  resolu- 
tion be  laid  on  the  table. 

Mr.  COGSWELL,  of  Massachusetts:  I  move  that  the  resolu- 
tion be  referred  to  the  National  Committee. 

Mr.  BEXTOX:  My  resolution  has  precedence.  I  moved  to 
lay  it  on  the  table. 

Mr.  COGSWELL  :  I  withdraw  my  motion. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Benton,  to  lay  on  the  table,  was  carried. 

Mr.  BRIGGS,  of  Vermont,  moved  that  the  thanks  of  this 
Convention  be  tendered  to  the  Hon.  George  Ashmun,  of 
Massachusetts,  for  the  admirable  manner  in  which  he  had 
presided  over  the  deliberations  of  the  Convention. 

The  motion  was  carried  unanimously. 

A  DELEGATE  moved  that  the  thanks  of  the  Convention  be 
tendered  to  the  Vice-Presidents  and  Secretaries  for  the  able 
manner  in  which  they  had  discharged  their  duties. 

Col.  PIXCKXEY,  of  New  York  :  I  move  to  amend  by  insert- 
ing the  words,  "especially  the  Reading  Secretary,"  (Mr. 
Pratt,  of  Indiana). 

The  motion  was  unanimously  carried. 

Mr.  SARGEXT,  of  California,  moved  that  the  Convention 
do  now  adjourn,  sine  die,  with  three  cheers  for  the  platform 
and  the  ticket. 

THE  VALEDICTORY. 

The  PRESIDEXT  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention — It  becomes 
now  my  duty  to  put  to  you  the  last  motion  which,  in  the 
order  of  parliamentary  law,  the  President  of  this  Convention 
has  the  power  to  propose.  But  before  doing  it,  and  before 
making  a  single  other  remark,  I  beg  to  tender  you  each  and 
all  my  cordial  thanks  for  the  kind  manner  in  which  you  have 
sustained  me  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  this  station. 
I  confess  to  you,  when  I  assumed  it,  I  did  it  with  some  ap- 


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prehension  that  I  might  not  be  able  to  come  up  to  the  expec- 
tations which  had  been  formed.  It  was  a  bold  undertaking, 
in  every  respect,  and  I  know  that  I  could  not  have  accom- 
plished it  half  so  well  as  I  have  done,  but  for  the  extreme 
generosity  on  all  sides  of  the  house.  There  was  a  solemn 
purpose  here  in  the  minds  and  in  the  hearts  of  not  merely  the 
Convention,  but  of  the  vast  assemblage  which  surrounded  us, 
that  before  we  separated  we  would  accomplish  the  high  duty. 
That  duty,  gentlemen,  we  have  accomplished.  Your  sober 
judgments,  your  calm  deliberations,  after  a  comparison  and 
discussion,  free,  frank,  brotherly  and  patriotic,  have  arrived  at 
a  conclusion  at  which  the  American  people  will  arrive. 
Every  symptom,  every  sign,  every  indication  accompanying 
the  Convention  in  all  its  stages,  are  a  high  assurance  of  suc- 
cess, and  I  will  not  doubt,  and  none  of  us  doubt,  that  it  will 
be  a  glorious  success.  Allow  me  to  say  of  the  nominees,  that, 
although  it  may  be  of  no  consequence  to  the  American  people 
or  to  you,  they  are  both  personally  known  to  me.  It  was  my 
good  fortune  to  have  served  with  Mr.  Lincoln  in  the  Congress 
of  the  United  States,  and  I  rejoice  in  the  opportunity  to  say 
that  there  was  never  elected  to  the  House  of  Representatives 
a  purer,  truer,  nor  a  more  intelligent  and  loyal  Representa- 
tive than  Abraham  Lincoln.  [Great  applause.]  The  contest 
through  which  he  passed  during  the  last  two  years  has  tried 
him  as  by  fire ;  and  in  that  contest  in  which  we  are  about  to 
go  for  him  now,  I  am  sure  that  there  is  not  one  man  in  this 
country  that  will  be  compelled  to  hang  his  head  for  anything 
in  the  life  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  You  have  a  candidate 
worthy  of  the  cause  ;  you  are  pledged  to  his  success ;  human- 
ity is  pledged  to  his  success;  the  cause  of  free  government  is 
pledged  to  his  success.  The  decree  has  gone  forth  that  he 
shall  succeed.  I  have  served  also  in  public  life  with  Hannibal 
Hamlin.  In  the  House  of  Representatives  we  were  ranged 
on  different  sides.  He  was  a  firm  Democrat  of  the  old  school, 
while  I  was  as  firmly,  and  perhaps  too  much  so,  a  Whig  of 
the  Webster  school.  [Applause.]  But  as  is  known  to  many 
of  the  gentlemen  who  sit  her  before  me  to-day,  there  was 


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always  a  sympathetic  chord  between  him  and  me  upon  the 
question  that  has  brought  us  here  to-day.  [Great  applause.] 
And  when  the  old  divisions  of  party  have  crumbled  away, 
and  the  force  of  circumstances  have  given  rise  to  new  issues, 
it  is  not  strange  that  we  are  found  battling  together  in  the 
common  cause.  I  say  then,  gentlemen,  that  you  have  got  a 
ticket  worthy  of  the  cause  and  worthy  of  the  country. 

Now,  gentlemen,  that  we  have  completed  so  well,  so 
thoroughly,  the  great  work  which  the  people  sent  us  here  to 
do,  let  us  adjourn  to  our  several  constituencies  ;  and  thanks  be 
to  God  who  giveth  the  victory,  we  will  triumph.  [Applause.] 

A  DELEGATE  :  Mr.  President,  may  I  suggest  that  when  we 
adjourn,  we  adjourn  to  meet  at  the  White  House  on  the  4th 
of  March  next? 

Mr.  ASHMUN:  No  other  motion  is  now  in  order,  but  that 
solemn  one  which  must  come  to  us  all.  Is  it  your  plea- 
sure that  we  now  separate?  As  many  as  are  in  favor  of  the 
motion  that  this  Convention  do  now  adjourn  sine  die,  say  aye. 

The  motion  prevailed,  and  the  Convention  was  declared  by 
the  President  adjourned,  sine  die. 


Pursuant  to  notice  given  by  the  President  of  the  Conven- 
tion, the  National  Republican  Committee  assembled  at  the 
Tremont  House,  Chicago,  at  8  o'clock  on  Friday  evening, 
May  18,  1860,  and  organized  by  choosing  Hon.  E.  D.  MOR- 
GAN, of  New  York,  Chairman,  and  GEORGE  G.  FOGG,  of  New 
Hampshire,  Secretary.  Subsequently  the  following  persons 
were  constituted  the  Executive  Committee: 

E.  D.  MORGAN,  of  New  York. 
GIDEON  WELLES,  of  Connecticut. 
X.  B.  JUDD,  of  Illinois. 
GAEL  SCHURZ,  of  ^V^scons^n. 
JOHN  Z.  GOODRICH,  of  Massachusetts. 
DENNING  DUER,  of  New  Jersey. 
GEO.  G.  FOGG,  of  New  Hampshire. 


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The  names  and  post-office  addresses  of  the  members  of  the 
committee,  are  as  follows: 

EDWIN  D.  MORGAN,  Albany,  N~.  Y. 

CHARLES  J.  GILMAN,  Brunswick,  Me. 

GEORGE  G.  FOGG,  Concord,  N~.  H. 

LAWRENCE  BRAINARD,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 

JOHN  Z.  GOODRICH,  Stockbridge,  Mass. 

THOMAS  G.  TURNER,  Warren,  7?.  I. 

GIDEON  WELLES,  Hartford,  Conn. 

DENNING  DUER  (of  N~.  J.),  N~eio  York  City. 

EDWARD  MCPHERSON,  Gettysburgh,  Pa. 

NATHANIEL  B.  SMITHERS,  Dover,  Del. 

JAMES  F.  WAGNER,  Baltimore,  Md. 

ALFRED  CALDWELL,  Wheeling,  Va. 

THOMAS  SPOONER,  Reading  (Ham.  Co.],  Ohio. 

SOLOMON  MEREDITH,  Centreville,  Ind. 

N.  B.  JUDD,  Chicago,  III. 

AUSTIN  BLAIR,  Jackson,  Mich. 

CARL  SCHURZ,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

ANDREW  J.  STEVENS,  Des  Moines,  loica. 

JOHN  McKusicK,  Stillwater,  Minn. 

ASA  S.  JONES,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

CASSIUS  M.  CLAY,  White  Hall  (Madison  Co.],  Ky. 

D.  W.  CHEESMAN,  Oroville,  Cal. 

FRANK  JOHNSON,  Oregon  City,  Oregon. 

WILLIAM  A.  PHILLIPS,  Lawrence,  Kansas. 

O.  H.  IRISH,  Nebraska  Cry. 

JOSEPH  GERHARDT,  Washington,  D.  C. 


ROLL  OF  THE  CONVENTION, 


PRESIDENT. 
HON.  GEORGE  ASHMUX,  of  Massachusetts. 


VICE-PRESIDENTS. 


California,  \.  X.  Sargent. 
Conn<:i-t!,-nt,  C.  F.  Cleveland. 
Delaware,  John  C.  Clark. 
Iowa,  H.  P.  Scholte. 
Illinois,  David  Davis. 
I u il! an, i,  John  Beard. 
I\infnfk>(,  W.  D.  Gallagher. 
\  Samuel  F.  Hersey. 

Wm.  L.  Marshall. 

Ensign  H.  Kel- 
logg. 

Michigan^  Thomas  W.  Ferry. 
Minnesota,  Aaron  Goodrich. 
ri,  Henry  T.  Blow. 


New  York,  Wm.  Curtis  Xoyes 
New  Jersey,  E.  Y.  Rogers. 
New  IJam/ixIiire,  Wm.  Haile. 
Ohio,  Geo.  D.  Burgess. 
Oregon,  Joel  Burlingame. 
Pennsylvania,  Thad.  Stevens. 
Rhode  Island,  R.  G.  Hazard. 
Texas,  Wm.  T.  Chandler. 
\'<  rinont,  Wm.  Hebord. 
Virginia,  R.  Crawford. 
Wisconsin^  Hans  Crocker. 
Nebraska,  A.  S.  Paddock. 
Kansas,  W.  W.  Ross. 
Dist.  Col.,  Geo.  Harrington. 


SECRETARIES. 


California,  D.  J.  Staples. 
Connecticut,  H.  H.  Starkweather 

Delaware,  B.  J.  Hopkins. 
Iowa,  William  B.  Allison. 
Illinois,  O.  L.  Davis. 
Indiana,  Daniel  D.  Pratt. 
J£entw:k;/,  Stephen  J.  Howes. 
Maine,  C.  A.  Wing. 
Mart/land,  William  E.  Coale. 
Massachusetts,  C.  O.  Rogers. 
MicJi  if/an,  W.  S.  Stoughton. 
Minnesota,  D.  A.  Secombe. 
Missouri,  J.  K.  Kidd. 
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New  York,  Geo.  W.  Curtis. 
New  Jersey,  Edward  Brettle. 
New  Hampshire,  Xathan  Hub- 
bard. 

Ohio,  N.  J.  Beebe. 
Oregon,  Eli  Thayer. 
Pennsylvania,  J.  B.  Bell. 
Rhode  Island,  R.  R.  Hazard,  Jr. 
Texas,  Dunbar  Henderson. 
Vermont,  John  W.  Stewart. 
Wisconsin,  L.  F.  Frisby. 
Kansas,  John  A.  Martin. 
Nebraska,  H.  P.  Hitchcock. 


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DELEGATES. 


Maine-Eight  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

George  F.  Talbot,  Machias. 
Wm.  II.  McCrillis,  Bangor. 
John  L.  Stevens,  Augusta. 
Rensselaer  Cram,  Portland. 

DISTRICTS. 

1.  Mark  F.  Wentworth,  Kittery. 
Leonard  Andrews,  Biddeford. 

2.  Charles  J.  Gilman,  Brunswick. 
Seward  Dill,  Phillips. 

3.  Xathan  G.  Hichborn,  Stockton 
Geo.  \V.  Lawrence,  Warren. 

4.  C.  A.  Wing,  Winthrop. 
J.  S.  Baker,  Bath. 

5.  Sanmel  F.  Hersey,  Bangor. 
Going  Hathorn,  Pittsfield. 

6.  John^West,  Franklin. 
Wash'n  Long,  Fort  Fairfield. 


New  Hampshire- Five  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

Hon.  Edward  II.  Rollins. 
Hon.  Aaron  H.  Cragin. 
Hon.  William  Haile. 
Hon.  Amos  Tuck. 

DELEGATES. 

1.  Xathaniel  Hubbard. 
George  Matthew  son. 

2.  B.  F.  Martin. 
F.  H.  Morgan. 

3.  Jacob  Benton. 
Jacob  C.  Bean. 


2.  Hugh  II.  Henry,  Chester. 
Win.  Hebord,  Chelsea. 

3.  Win.  Clapp,  St.  Albans. 
E.  B.  Sawyer,  Hyde  Park. 


Vermont— Five  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

E.  X.  Briggs,  Brandon. 
Peter  T.   Washburn,  Wood- 
stock. 

E.  D.  Mason,  Richmond. 
E.  C.  Redington,  St.  Johns-  j 
bury. 

DISTRICT. 

1.  John  W.  Stewart,  Middlebury. 
E.  B.  Burton,  Manchester. 


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1] 


Massachusetts -Thirteen  Votes. 
AT   LARGE. 

John  A.  Andrew,  Boston. 
Ensign  H.  Kellogg,  Pittsfield. 
George  S.  Boutwell,  Groton. 
Linus  B.  Comins,  Boston. 

DISTRICTS. 

Joseph  M.  Day,  Barnstable. 

Jonathan  Bourne,   Jr.,  New 
Bedford. 

Robert  T.  Davis,  Fall  River. 

Seth  Webb,  Jr.,  Scituate. 

Edward  L.  Pierce,  Miltoa. 

William  Claflin,  Xewton. 

Charles  O.  Rogers,  Boston. 

Josiah  Dunham,  Boston. 

Samuel  Hooper,  Boston. 

George  Win.  McLellan,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Timothy  Davis,  Gloucester. 

E.  F.  Stone,  Xewburyport. 

George  Cogswell,  Bradford. 

Timothy  Winn,  Woburn. 

Theo.  H.  Sweetser,  Lowell. 

John  S.  Keyes,  Concord. 

John  D.  Baldwin,  Worcester. 

Edward  B.  Bigelow,  Graft  on. 

John  Wells,   (sub    for  Geo. 
Ashmun,  Pres't,)  Chicopee. 

Erastns  Hopkins,  Northamp- 
ton. 

John  H.   Coffin,   Great   Har- 
rington. 

Matthew   D.  Field,   South- 
wick. 


Rhode  Island-Four  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

J.  F.  Simmons,  U.  S.  Senate. 
Xathaniel  B.  Durfee,  Tiverton. 
Benedict  Lapham,  Centreville. 
W.  H.  S.  Bayley,  Bristol. 


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DISTRICT-.  10. 

Benj.  T.  Eames,  Providence. 
R.  K.  Hazard,  Jr.,  Xewport.     , 
1J.  G.  Hazard,  Peacedale. 
Simon  Ilenrv  Greene,  Phi-nix.    11. 


Connecticut— Six  Votes. 
AT  l.AKGK. 

Gideon  Welles,  Hartford. 
Eleazer  K.  Foster,  Xew  Haven 
C.  F.  Cleveland,  Hampton. 
Alex.  H.  Holley,  Salisbury. 

DISTRICTS, 

S.  Q.  Porter,  rnionville,  P.  O. 
Leverett  E.  Pease,  Somers. 
S.  "\Y.  Kcl'o^u,-,  Waterbury. 
Arthur  B.  Calef,  Middletown. 
David  Gallup,  Plaintield. 
H.  H.  Starkweather,  Xorwich. 
Edifar  S.  Tweedy,  Danbury. 
Geo.  H.  Xoble,  Xew  Miltord. 


12. 


New  York -Thirty- Five  Votes. 
AT  I..YIIGK. 

William  M.  Evarts,  Xew  York 
Preston  King,  Ogdensburgh. 
John  L.  Schoolcraft,  Albany. 
Henry  R.  Selden,  Rochester. 

DISTRICTS. 

.  Geo.  W.  Curtis,  Xe\v  York. 

1*.  L.  Meeks,  Jamaica,  L.  I. 
.  J.  S.  T.  Stranahan,  Brooklyn. 

Henry  A.  Kent,  Brooklyn. 
.  John  A.  Kennedy,  Xew  York. 

John  A.  King,  Jamaica. 
.  O.  W.  Brennan,  Xew  York. 

Robert  T.  Haws.  Xew  York. 
.  T.  Murphy,  50  Dev  St..  Xc-w 
York. 

C.  M.  l>rig'j;s.  Williamsburgh. 
.  J.  C'.  Pinckney,  Xew  York. 

M.  13.  Blake,  ' 
,  D.  I).  Conover,          " 

John  Keyser,  " 

.  \Vm.  Curtis  Xoyes,  " 

James  W.  Xye,          " 
.  E.  J.  Porter/  Xew  Rochelle. 

John  G.  Miller,   Carmel,  Put- 
nam Co. 


15. 

16. 
17, 
18. 

19. 

20. 

2L 

•22, 
28. 

24. 

25. 

20. 

27. 


Ambrose  S.  Murray,  Goshen, 
Orange  Co. 

C.  Y.  II.  Luddington,  Monti- 
cello,  Sullivan  Co. 

Peter  Crispell,  Jr.,  Hurley. 

Henry  Green,  Coxsackie. 

Albert  Van  Kleeck,  Pough- 
keepsie,  Dutchess  Co. 

John  T.  Hogeboom,  Ghent. 

Jonathan  W.  Freeman,  Troy. 

Gideon  Rt-vnolds,  Troy. 

H.  H.  Van'Dyck,  Albany. 

II.  A.  Brigham,  West  Troy. 
,  E.  Dodd.  Artryle,  Wash.  Co. 

Jas.  W.  Schenck,  Glens  Falls, 

Warren  Co. 

,  Orlando  Kellogg,  Elizabeth- 
town. 

Win.  Hedding. 
,  John  II.  Wooster,  Xewport, 
Herkimer  Co. 

A.  B.  James,  Ogdensburgh. 
,11.     Churchill,     Gloversville, 
Fulton  Co. 

Thomas  R.  Horton,  Fulton- 
ville,  Montgomery  Co. 

1 1.  X.Buckley,  Delhi,  Del.  Co. 

Samuel    J.    Cook,    Coopers- 
town. 

Palmer  V.  Kellogg,  Utica. 

Henry  H.  Fish,  Utica. 

Giles   AY.   Hotchkiss,   Bing- 
Jiamton. 

Benj.  S.  Rexford,  Xorwich. 

S.  F.  Case,  Fulton,  Os'go  Co. 

Robt.  Stewart,  Chittenango, 
Madison  Co. 

Isaac  H.  Fiske,  Watertown, 
Jefferson  Co. 

H.  Porter,  Louisville,  Lewis 

Vivus  W.  Smith,  Syracuse. 

D.  C.  Greenfield,  Baldwins- 
ville. 

Alex.  B.  Williams,  Lyons. 
T.   M.  Pomeroy,  Auburn. 
O.  B.  Latham,  Seneca  Falls. 
Charles    C.    Shepard,    Penn 

Yan,  Yates  Co. 
Win.  AY.  Shepard,  Waverly, 
Tiocra  Co. 


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Geo.   W.    Schuyler,    Ithaca, 
Tompkins  Co. 

28.  Wm.  Scott,  Geneseo,  Living- 

ston Co. 

Stephen   T.   Hayt,   Corning, 
Steuben  Co. 

29.  D.  D.  S.  Brown,  Rochester. 
Alex.  Babcock,  Rochester. 

30.  Joshua  H.  Darling,  Warsaw, 

Wyoming  Co. 
John  H.  Kimberly,  Batavia. 

31.  Wm.  Keep,  Lockport. 
Noah  Davis,  Jr.,  Albion. 

32.  Alex.  W.  Harvey,  Buffalo. 
Joseph  Candee, 

33.  Alonzo  Kent,  Ellicottville. 
Delos  E.  Sill, 


Marcus  L.  Ward,  Newark. 
Denning  Duer,  Weehawken. 


New  Jersey— Seven  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

James  T.  Sherman,  Trenton. 
Thomas  H.- Dudley,  Camden. 
Edward  Y.  Rogers,  Rah  way. 
Ephraim  Marsh,  Jersey  City. 
F.  T.  Frelinghuysen,  Newark. 
Jonathan  Cook,  Trenton. 
D.  S.  Gregory,  Jersey  City. 
John  J.  Blair,  Blairtown. 

DISTRICTS. 

l.P.  Ludlam,  Bridget  on. 
R.  K.  Mattock,  Woodbury. 
Edward  Brettle,  Camden. 
Jonathan  D.  Ingham,  Salem. 

2.  A.  R.  Pharo,  Tuckerton. 
Stephen  B.  Smith,  Pennington 
Amzi  C.  McLean,  Freehold. 
Bernard  Connolly,        " 

3.  A.  P.  Bethude,  Washington, 

Warren  Co. 

N.  W.  Voorhees,  Clinton. 

W.  D.  Waterman,  Janesville. 

Moses  F.  Webb,  New  Bruns- 
wick. 

4.  Henry  M.  Low,  Paterson. 
Wm.  G.  Lathrop,  Boonton. 
T.  Gumming,  Hackensack. 
Henry  B.  Crosby,  Paterson. 

5.  Hugh  H.  Bowne,  Rah  way. 
H.  N.  Conger,  Newark. 


Pennsylvania— Twenty-Seven  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

David  Wilijiot,  Towanda. 
S.  A.  Purviance,  Pittsburg. 
Thaddeus  Stevens,  Lancaster. 
John  H.  Ewing,  Washington. 
Henry  D.  Moore,  Philadelphia 
Andrew  II.  Reeder,  Easton. 
Titian  J.  Coffey,  Pittsburg. 
Morrow  B.  Lowry,  Erie. 

DISTRICTS. 

1.  John  M.  Butler,  Philadelphia. 
Elias  Ward, 

J.  Money, 
Win,  Elliott, 

2.  Geo.  A.  Coffey, 
Ridiard  Ellis," 

F.  Blackburn, 
John  M.  Pomroy, 

3.  M.  B,  Mann, 
James  M'Manus, 
Benj.  H.  Brown, 
George  Read, 

4.  A.  C.  Roberts, 
M.  II.  Kern. 
Wm.  D.  Kelly, 

M.  S.  Buckley,  Richmond. 

5.  James  Hooven,  Norristown. 
Dr.  C.  M.  Jackson,  Philadel- 
phia. 

Win.  B.  Thomas,  Ph'delphia. 

G.  W.  Pumroy,  Philadelphia 

6.  John  M.  Broomal,  Chester. 
W.  Townsend,  West  Chester. 
Jos.  J.  Lewis,  West  Chester. 
Jacob  S.  Sen-ill,  Darby. 

7.  Caleb  N.  Taylor,  Bristol. 
Joseph  Young,  Allen  Town. 
George  Beisel,  Allen  Town. 
Henry  J.  Saeger,  Allen  Town 

8.  Isaac  Eckert,  Redding. 
David  E.  Stout,  Redding. 
J.  Knabb,  Redding. 

J.  Bowman  Bell,  Redding. 

9.  O.  J.  Dickey,  Lancaster. 
C.  S.  Kauffrnan,  Columbia. 


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Samuel  Schoch,  Columbia. 

Jos.  D.  Pownall,  Christiana. 
10.  G.  D.  Coleman,  Lebanon. 

Levi  Kline,  Lebanon. 

Jos.  Casey.  Harrisburg. 

Wm.  Cameron,  Louisburg. 
1  1.  Uobert  M.  Palmer,  Pottsville 

Jacob  G.  Frick,  Pottsville. 

S.  A.  Bergstresser,  Elysburg. 

Wm.  C.  Lawson,  Milton. 

12.  W.    W.    Ketchum,    Wilkes- 

barre. 
P.  M.   Osterhout,    Junkhan- 

nock. 

Frank  Stewart,  Berwick. 
Davis  Alton,  Carbondale. 

13.  C.  Albright,  Maunch  Chunk. 
Wm.  Davis,  Stroudslmrg. 
Wm.  II.  Armstrong,  East  on. 
Sam.  E.  Dimmiek,  Ilonesdale. 

14.  H.  W.  Tracy,  Standing  Stone, 

Bradford  county. 
Hon.  Wm.  L.  Jessup,  Mon- 
trose,  Susquehauna  county. 

F.  E.  Smith,  Tioga  Point. 
Dr.  Abel  Humphreys,  Tioga 

Point. 

15.  Wm.  Butler,  Lewiston. 

B.  Rush  Peterkin,  Lockhavcn 
Lindsay  Mehatfey,  Xe  wberry. 

G.  B.  Overtoil,  Coudersport. 

16.  Kirk  Haines,  Millerstown. 
"W.  B.  Irvin,  Mechanicsburg. 
Alex.  J.  Frey,  York. 
Jacob    S.    Haldeman,    Xew 

Cumberland. 

17.  Win.    M'Clellan,    Chambers- 

burgh. 

D.  M'Caunaghy,  Gettysburg. 
John  J.  Patterson,  Academin. 
Francis  Jordan.  Bedford. 

18.  A.  A.  Barker,  Ebensburg. 

S.  M.  Green,  Bailey's  Forge, 

Huntinuton  county. 
L.  W.  Hall,  Altoona. 
Wm.  II.  Coons,  Sumcrset. 

19.  W.  M.  Steuart,  Indiana. 
Darwin  E.  Phelps,  Kittaning. 
Addison  Leech,  Leechburg. 
D.  W.  Shryok,  Greersburg. 


20.  Andrew  Stewart,  Uniontown 
Smith  Fuller,  Uniontown. 
Alex.  Murdoch,  Washington. 
AVm.  E.  Gapen,  Waynesburg. 

21.  Win.  H.  Mersh,  Pittsburg. 
Col.  Jas.  A.  Ekin,  Elizabeth. 
John  F.  Dravo,  McKeesport. 
J.  J.  Siebreck,  Pittsburg. 

22.  D.  X.  White,  Sewickley. 
Stephen  II.  Guyer,  Alleghany 

City. 
John  X.  Purvianee,    Butler 

Co. 
W.  L.  Graham,  Butler  Co. 

23.  L.  L.  McGuffin,  Xew  Castle. 
David  Craig,  Xew  Castle. 
Wm.  G.  Brown,  Mercer. 
John  Allison,  Xew  Brighton. 

24.  Henry  Souther,  Kidgway. 
S.  P.  Johnston,  Warren. 
Jas.  S.  Meyers,  Franklin. 
Ben.  Hartshorne. 

25.  B.  B.  Vincent,  Erie. 
Thomas  J.  Devore,  Erie. 
J.  C.  Hays,  Meadville. 

S.  Xewton  Pettis,  Meadville. 


Delaware -Three  Votes. 

Xathaniel  B.  Smithers,  Dover. 
John  C.  Clark,  Delaware  City. 
Benjamin  C.  Hopkins,  Vernon. 
Lewis  Thompson,  Pleasant  Hill 
Joseph  T.  Heald,  Wilmington. 
Alfred  Short,  Milford. 


Mary  land -Eight  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

Francis  P.  Blair,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

Wm.  L.  Marshall,   Baltimore. 

DISTRICTS. 

1.  James  Bryan,  Cambridge. 

2.  James  Jetfery,  Churchville. 
Wm.  P.  Ewing,  Elkton. 

3.  Francis  S.  Corkran,  Baltimore. 
.lames  F.  Wagner,  Baltimore. 

4.  Wm.  E.  Coale^  Baltimore. 


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Chris.  Lee  Armour,  Frederick. 
Montgomery  Blair,  Washing- 
ton; D.  C. 
D.  S.  Gram,  Church  Creek. 


Virginia-Fifteen  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

Alfred  Caldwell,  Wheeling. 

E.  M.  Norton, 

AY.  AY.  Gitt,  Montgomery  Co. 

Court  House. 
3.  C.  Underwood,  Clark  Co. 

Court  House. 

DISTRICTS. 

Jacob  Hornbrook,  Wheeling. 
J.  G.  Jacob,  Wellsburg. 
J.  Applegate,  AYellsburg. 
A.  G.  Robinson,  Wheeling. 
R.  Crawford, 
Thos.  Hornbrook,        " 
J.  M.  Pumphrey,          " 
R.  H.  Gray,  Lynchburg. 

F.  D.  Norton,  Wheeling. 

J.  Underwood,  Prince  William 

Court  House. 
J.  B.  Brown,  Alexandria. 
,  W.  J.  Blackwood,  Clark  Co. 

Court  House. 
J.  L.  Freeman,  Hancock  Court 

House. 

,  A.  W.  Campbell,  Wheeling. 
D.  AY.  Roberts,  Morgantown. 
W.  E.  Stevenson,  Parkersburg 
S.  M.  Peterson,  " 

S.  H.  AYoodward,  AYheeling. 
,  James  Wilson,  " 


Ohio— Twenty-Three  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

Hon.  D.  K.  Cartter,  Cleveland. 
Hon.  V.  B.  Horton,  Pomeroy, 

Meigs. 
Hon.    T.    Spooner,   Redding, 

Hamilton. 
Hon.  C.  Broadbeck,  Dayton. 

DISTRICTS. 

Benj.  Eggleston,  Cincinnati. 
Fred.  Ilassaureck,  " 

R.  M.  Corwine,  " 


Joseph  H.  Barrett,  Cincinnati. 

3.  AYm.  Beckett,  Hamilton. 
P.  P.  Lowe,  Dayton. 

4.  G.  D.  Burgess,  troy. 
John  E.  Cummings,  Sidney. 

5.  David  Taylor,  Defiance. 
E.  Graham,  Perryburg. 

6.  J.  M.  Barrere,  New  Market. 
Reeder  AY.  Clarke,  Batavia. 

7.  Hon.  Thos.  Corwin,  Lebanon. 
A.  Hivling,  Xenia. 

8.  AA^.  II.  AYest,  Bellefontaine. 
Levi  Geiger,  Urbana. 

9.  Earl  Bill,  Tiffin. 

D.  AY.  Swigart,  Bucyrus. 

10.  J.  V.  Robinson,  Jr.,  Ports- 

mouth. 
Milton  L.  Clark,  Chillicothe. 

11.  X.  II.  Yan  A^orhees,  Athens. 
A.  C.  Sands,  Zelaski. 

12.  AYillard  Warner,  Xewark. 
Jonathan  Renick,  Circleville. 

13.  John  J.  Gurley,  Mt.  Gilead. 
P.  X.  Schuyler,  Xorwalk. 

1  4.  James  Monroe,  Oberlin. 
(T.  U.  Harn,  AA^ooster. 

15.  Hon.  Columbus  Delano,  Mt. 
A'ernon. 

R.  K.  Ennis,  Millersburg. 

16.  Daniel  Applecrate,  Zanesville. 

C.  A.  AYilliaiiis,  Chesterfield. 

17.  C.  J.  Allbright,  Cambridge. 
AY.  AYallace,  Martin's  Ferry. 

18.  H.  G.  Beebe,  Ravenna. 
Isaac  Steesc.  Massilon. 

19.  Robt.  F.  Paine,  Cleveland. 
R.  Hitchcock,  Painesville. 

20.  J.  R.  Giddings,  Jefferson. 
Milton  Sutlitie,  AYarren. 

21.  Samuel  Stokely,  Steubenville. 

D.  Arter,  Carrollton. 


Kentucky— Twelve  Votes. 
AT  LARC.K. 

Geo.  D.  Blakey,  Russellville. 
A.     A.     Burton,     Lancaster, 

Girard  county. 
Wm.    D.    Gallagher,    Pewee 

A'alley. 


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Charles  Hendley,  Xewport. 

DISTI;I<  T>. 

1.  Aimer  Williams,  Covington. 
Aiulre\v  Hawes. 

2.  Fred,  Frische,  Louisville. 

E.  II.  Harrison,  McKee,  Jack- 
son Co. 

3.  Joseph  Glazebrook,  Glasgow. 
Jos.    W.    Calvert,    Bowling- 
Green. 

4.  John  J.  Hawes,  Louisville. 

5.  H.  D.  Hawes,  Louisville. 
Lewis  X.  Dembitz,  Louisville 

6.  Curtis  Knight,  Kingston. 
Joseph  H.  Rawliims,  White 

Hall,  Madison  Co. 

7.  II.II.Merriwether,  Louisville 
Henry  AV.  Hawes,  Louisville. 

8.  H.  G.  Otis,   Ashland,  Boyd 

Co. 

L.     Marston,    Millersburgh, 
Madison  Co. 

9.  Edgar  Xeedham,  Louisville. 
J.  S.  Davis. 

10.  Jas.  R.  Whittemore,  Xewp't. 
Hamilton  Cuinmings,  Coving- 
ton. 


Indiana-Thirteen  Votes. 

AT  LAKI;I:. 

William  T.  Ott.  Xew  Albany. 
Daniel  D.  Pratt,  Logans] >ort. 
Caleb  r>.  Smith,  Indianapolis. 
P.  A.  Hackelman,  Rushville. 

DISTRICTS. 
I.James  C.  Veatch,  Rockport. 

C.  M.  Allen,  Vineennes. 

2.  Thos.  C.  Slaughter,  Corydou. 
J.  H.  Butler,  Salem. 

3.  John  R.  Cravens,  Madison. 
A.  C.  Vorhies,  Bedford. 

4.  Geo.  Holland,  Brookville. 
J.  L.  Yater.  Versailes. 

5.  Miles  Murphy,  Xewcastle. 
Walter  Mareh,  Muneie. 

6.  S.  P.  Oyler,  Franklin. 
John  S.  Bobbs.  Indianapolis. 

T.  Geo.  K.  Steele,  Rockville. 

D.  C.  Donohue,  Green  Cattle. 
8.  John  Beard,  Crawfordsville. 


J.  X.  Simms,  Frankfort. 
9.  Chas.  H.  Test,  Mudges  Station 
D.  II.  Hopkins,  Crown  Point. 

10.  Geo.  Moon,  Warsaw. 
Geo.  Emmerson,  Angola. 

11.  Win.  W.  Connor,  Xoblesville 
John  M.  Wallaee,  Marion. 


Michigan-  Six  Votes. 
AT  LAKtiK. 

Austin  Blair,  Jackson. 
W.  W.  Murphy,  Jonesville. 
T.  W.  Ferry,  Grand  Haven. 
J.  J.  St.  Glair,  Marquette. 

DISTRICTS. 

1.  J.  G.  Peterson,  Detroit. 
Alex.  D.  Crane,  Dexter. 

2.  Jesse  G.  Beeson,  Dowagiac. 
Win.  L.  Stoughton,  Sturgis. 

:5.  Francis  Quinn,  Xiles. 

Erastus  Hussey,  Battle  Creek. 
4.  D.  C.  Buckland,  Pontiac. 

M.  T.   C.   Plessner, 
City. 


Illinois— Eleven  Votes 
AT  LARGE. 

X.  B.  Judd,  Chicago. 
Gustavus  Koerner,  Belleville. 
1  hivid  Davis,  Bloomington. 
O.  H.  Browning,  Quim-y. 

DISTRICTS. 

1.  Jason  Marsh,  Rockford. 
Solon   Cuinmings,    Grand    de 

Tour. 

2.  George  Schneider,  Chicago. 
Geo.  T.  Smith,  Fulton,  White- 
side  Co. 

3.  B.  C.  Cook,  Ottawa. 
O.  L.  Davis,  Danville. 

4.  Henry  Grove,  Peoria. 

E.  W.  Hazard,  Galesbunr. 

5.  Wm.  Ross,  Pittsrield. 
James  S.  Erwin,  Mt.  Sterling. 

r,.  S.  T.  Logan,  Springfield. 

X.  M.  Knapp,  Winchester. 
7.  Thos.  A.  Marshall,  Charleston. 


"\Vm.  P.  Dole,  Paris. 

8.  F.  S.  Rutherford,  Alton. 
D.  K.  Green,  Salem. 

9.  James  C.  Sloo,  Shawneetown. 
D.  L.  Phillips,  Anna. 


Wisconsin— Five  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

Carl  Schurz,  Milwaukee. 
Hans  Crocker,  Milwaukee. 
T.  B.  Stoddard,  La  Crosse. 
John  P.  McGregor,  Milwaukee 

DISTRICTS. 

1.  H.  L.  Rann,  Whitewater. 
C.  C.  Sholes,  Kenosha. 

2.  M.  S.  Gibson,  Hudson. 
J.  R.  Bennett,  Janesville. 

3.  Elisha  Morrow,  Green  Bay. 
L.   F.   Frisbey,   West   Bend, 

Washington  Co. 


Minnesota— Four  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

John  W.  North,  Northfield. 
D.  A.  Secombe,  St.  Anthony. 
Stephen  Miller,  St.  Cloud. 
S.  P.  Jones,  Rochester. 
DISTRICTS. 

1.  A.  H.  Wagerner,  New  Ulin. 
Aaron  Goodrich,  St.  Paul. 

2.  John  McCusick,  Stillwater. 
Simeon  Smith,  Chatfield. 


Iowa— Four  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

Wm.  Penn  Clark,  Iowa  City. 
L.  C.  Noble,  West  Union. 
John  A.  Kasson,  Des  Moines. 
Henry  O'Connor,  Muscatine. 
J.  F.  Wilson,  Fairfield. 
J.  W.  Rankin,  Keokuk. 
M.  L.  McPherson,  Wintersett. 
C.  F.  Clarkson,  Metropolis. 
X.  J.  Rusch,  Davenport. 
H.  P.  Scholte,  Pella. 
John  Johns,  Fort  Dodge. 


DISTRICTS. 

|  1.  Alvin  Saunders,  Mt.  Pleasant- 
J.  C.  Walker,  Fort  Madison. 

2.  Jos.  Caldwell,  Ottumwa. 
M.  Baker,  Congdon. 

3.  Benj.  Rector,  Sidney. 
Geo.  A.  Hawley,  Leon. 

4.  H.  M.  Hoxie,  Des  Moines. 
Jacob  Butler,  Muscatine. 

5.  Thos.  Seeley,  Guthrie  Centre. 
C.  C.  Nourse,  Des  Moines. 

6.  Wm.  M.  Stone,  Knoxville. 
J.  B.  Grinnell,  Grinnell. 

7.  Wm.  A.  Warren,  Bellevue. 
John  W.  Thompson,  Daven- 
port. 

8.  John  Shane,  Vinton. 
Wm.  Smyth,  Marion. 

9.  Wm.  B.  Allison,  Dubuque. 
A.  F.  Brown,  Cedar  Falls. 

10.  Reuben  Noble,  McGregor. 

E.  G.  Bawdoin,  Rockford. 
ll.W.   P.   Hepburn,    Marshall- 
town. 

J.  J.  BroAvn,  Eldora. 


Missouri— Nine  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

Francis  P.  Blair,  Jr.,  St.  Louis. 

B.  Gratz  Brown,  St.  Louis. 

F.  Muench,  Marthasville. 
J.  O.  Sitton,  Hermann. 

DISTRICTS. 

1.  P.  L.  Foy,  St.  Louis. 

C.  L.  Bernays,  St.  Louis. 

2.  A.  Krekle,  St.  Charles. 

A.  Hammer,  St.  Louis. 

3.  N.  T.  Doane,  Trenton. 
Asa  S.  Jones,  St.  Louis. 

4.  H.  B.  Branch,  St.  Joseph. 

G.  W.  H.  Landon,  St.  Joseph. 

5.  Jas.  B.  Gardenhire,  Jefferson 

City. 

B.  Bruns,  Jefferson  City. 

6.  J.  K.  Kidd,  Linn. 

J.  M.  Richardson,  Springfield. 
V.  Jas.  Lindsay,  Ironton. 
Thos.  Fletcher,  De  Soto. 


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Calif ornia-Four  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

F.  P.  Tracy,  San  Francisco. 
A.  A.  Sargent,  Nevada. 
D.  W.  Cheesman,  Orvillc. 
J.  C.  Hinckley,  Shasta. 
Chas.  Watrous,  San  Francisco. 
Sam.  Bell,  Mariposa. 
D.  J.  Staples,  Staples  Branch. 
J.  R.  McDonald,  Hay \vards. 


Oregon— Three  Votes. 

Joel  Burlingame,  Scion,  Linn 
Co.,  Oregon. 

H.  Greeley,  New  York  City. 

Henry  Buckingham,  Salem, 
Oregon. 

Eli  Thayer,  House  Represen- 
tatives, Washington,  D.  C. 

Frank  Johnson,  Oregon  City. 


Texas -Six  Votes. 
AT  LARGE. 

D.  C.  Henderson,  Austin. 
G.  A.  Fitch,  Austin. 
James  P.  Scott,  San  Antonio. 
H.  A.  Shaw,  Little  Elm,  Den- 
ton  Co. 

20 


DISTRICTS. 

1.  Gilbert  Movers,  Galveston. 
Donald  Henderson. 

2.  M.  S.  C.  Chandler,  Galveston. 
C.  E.  Simmons. 


Kansas. 

A.  C.  Wilder,  Leavenworth. 
John  A.  Martin,  Atchison. 
Wm.  A.  Phillips,  Lawrence. 
W.  W.  Ross,  Topeka. 
A.  G.  Proctor,  Emporia. 
John  P.  Hatterschiet,  Leaven- 
worth. 


Nebraska-Six  Votes. 

O.  W.  Irish,  Nebraska  City. 
S.  H.  Elbert,  Plattsmouth. ' 
E.  D.  Webster,  Omaha. 
John  R.  Meredith,  Omaha. 
A.  S.  Paddock,  Fort  Calhoun. 
P.  W.  Hitchcock,  Omaha. 


District  of  Columbia. 

1.  Geo.  Harrington,  Washington. 
Joseph  Gerhardt, 
G.  A.  Hall, 
J.  A.  Wyse, 


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